pine barren

American  

noun

1. a tract of sandy or peaty soil in which pine trees are the principal growth, as in low-lying areas near the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States.

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Etymology

Origin of pine barren

An Americanism dating back to 1725–35

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pine barren

In the blackness before dawn, the Silver Meteor streaked through the South Carolina pine barren.

From Time Magazine Archive

The southern provinces are the countries where nature has formed the greatest variety of alligators, snakes, serpents; and scorpions, from the smallest size, up to the pine barren, the largest species known here.

From Letters from an American Farmer by St. John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector

It was really a pine barren, such as may be seen to this day in what is called the wire-grass region of southern Georgia.

From Stories Of Georgia by Harris, Joel Chandler

The country passed over was nearly a pine barren, thinly inhabited, but showing some, though very few, good plantations.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various

Whether the monotonous stretches of pine barren depress mentally, or frequent recurring "ager" prostrates physically, who shall say?

From Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by DeLeon, T. C.