pinery

American  

[pahy-nuh-ree] / ˈpaɪ nə ri /

noun

pineries plural

1. a place in which pineapples are grown.

2. a forest or grove of pine trees.

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pinery British  

/ ˈpaɪnərɪ /

noun

1. a place, esp a hothouse, where pineapples are grown

2. a forest of pine trees, esp one cultivated for timber

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• pineries
  plural

Etymology

Origin of pinery

First recorded in 1750–60; pine ¹ + -ery

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

pinery pineries

The project to restore Tatton Park's traditional pinery was completed in 2007 and staff have been working towards producing a crop ever since.

From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2012

Staff at the pinery commemorated the success of the crop by recreating a 1675 painting by Hendrick Danckerts, which showed King Charles II being given the first pineapple to be grown on English soil.

From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2012

I was just back and feeling strong again, when one day Sir Francis came down into the pinery, and stopped and spoke to me.

From Brownsmith's Boy A Romance in a Garden by Fenn, George Manville

In northern Wisconsin, we find another great pinery, in which, in one year, was sawed not less than two hundred millions of feet of pine timber.

From Old Mackinaw The Fortress of the Lakes and its Surroundings by Strickland, W. P. (William Peter)

Then all at once she remembered that Young Matt had told her how Sake Creek hollow headed in the pinery below the ridge along which they went from Fall Creek to the Forks.

From The Shepherd of the Hills by Wright, Harold Bell

Frederick Weyerhaeuser, a German immigrant, brought order to Wisconsin’s pineries after the Civil War by using river booms to corral and sort the thousands of logs floated down to sawmills each spring.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

It has a facility near Marquette, Mich., that is fed sawdust and tree tops from the Upper Peninsula’s pineries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 17, 2025

He was advised to take for a few months one drop daily of his solution, and to take often an airing in the pineries which abound around Frankfort.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock

Lumbering in Maine.—The practical lumberman did not usually start his teams for the pineries until snowfall and the freezing of the lakes and rivers.

From Fifty Years In The Northwest With An Introduction And Appendix Containing Reminiscences, Incidents And Notes by Folsom, William Henry Carman

She also shows us the pattern in the dense pineries, and other timber tracts of our country.

From American Pomology Apples by Warder, J. A.