pinery
Americannoun
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a place, esp a hothouse, where pineapples are grown
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a forest of pine trees, esp one cultivated for timber
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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
That man has been boss of a gang of hands in the pinery for two winters, and has a farm paid for on the Central Railroad, and is “square.”
From Peck's Compendium of Fun by Peck, George W. (George Wilbur)
The trees, the wood-aisles, the extent of vision shrunk to the normal proportions of an Eastern pinery.
From The Mountains by White, Stewart Edward
The pinery had yielded only one hundred in the last year.
From Northanger Abbey by Austen, Jane
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