pineland

American  

[pahyn-land, -luhnd] / ˈpaɪnˌlænd, -lənd /

noun

1. Often pinelands. an area or region covered largely with pine forest.

   He longed for the pinelands of his home state.

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Etymology

Origin of pineland

An Americanism dating back to 1650–60; pine ¹ + land

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pineland

The 1.1 million-acre pineland encompasses most of South Jersey and has been rumored to house a folkloric "Jersey Devil" for more than 250 years, according to the Pinelands Preservation Alliance.

From Fox News ● Oct. 5, 2021

But in 2007, a butterfly collector stumbled across several near the zoo, a rare Lazarus moment that has since helped reignite efforts to save the last isolated tracts of pineland.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 12, 2016

The endangered pineland sandmat in Florida’s Everglades National Park on March 16, 2015.

From Slate ● Apr. 22, 2015

The pineland belts have an aggregate area of 486,000 acres, making at least 800,000 acres accessible by railways from the large cities and also near to tidewater navigation.

From Three Acres and Liberty by Bolton Hall

When the sun began to lower over the beeches she had gone home with her arms full of arbutus, but she had turned at the edge of the pineland and waved her hand at him.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

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