pinetum
noun
an arboretum of pines and coniferous trees.
pineta
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pluralof pinetum.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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“A passeggiata in pineta is just pleasure,” Mr. Pasanella alliterated, using the Italian word for walk.
From New York Times ● Jun. 2, 2022
It is there— umbrosi subter pineta Galaesi— that Propertius pictures to himself Virgil meditating his Aeneid and still conning over his earlier Eclogues— Thyrsin et attritis Daphnin harundinibus.
From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. Sellar
Yet he must have strayed ‘subter pineta Galaesi’ some time before the composition of the last Georgic.
From The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil by W. Y. Sellar
