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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.


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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of pinery

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

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The company built pellet plants across the southern U.S., moving into parts of the pinery where pulp and paper mills had closed and left behind surfeits of sawdust, wood chips and cheap pulpwood.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

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

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

He had a pine-house built 68 feet in length and a pinery 140 feet. 

From Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson by Samuel Smiles

Again I was in a long low place something like the pinery, and here I was amongst melons—large netted-skinned melons of all sizes, some being quite huge, and apparently ready to cut.

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

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

One day the chief surgeon of all the Southwestern pineries came along.

From Wild Life on the Rockies by Enos Abijah Mills

I have seen the flame azaleas at their bright hour of consummation in the hill country of central Georgia—lakes of tranquil and splendid fire spreading far away through the rough-barked colonnades of the pineries.

From Days Off And Other Digressions by Henry Van Dyke

When the winter had fairly set in the lumberman, with his ox teams, generally six oxen to a sled, the sleds laden with camp plunder, would start for the pineries.

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

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