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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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
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 Harold Bell Wright
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
Douglas squirrels are the principal nurserymen for all the Western pineries.
From Wild Life on the Rockies by Enos Abijah Mills
Look for a moment at the vast region depending upon the pineries of Michigan for its supply of lumber for building purposes of every kind—houses, fence and shelter of every description.
From Old Mackinaw The Fortress of the Lakes and its Surroundings by W. P. (William Peter) Strickland
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