piñon

American  

[pin-yuhn, peen-yohn, peen-yohn, pee-nyawn] / ˈpɪn jən, ˈpin joʊn, pinˈjoʊn, piˈnjɔn /

noun

• piñons,
  plural
• piñones
  plural

1. Also called pinyon pine, nut pine. Also any of several pines of southwestern North America, as Pinus monophylla or P. edulis, bearing edible, nutlike seeds.

2. Also called piñon nut. the seed.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• piñones
  plural
• piñons
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of piñon

1825–35, < Spanish piñón, derivative of piña pine cone

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Example Sentences

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piñon piñons

From lowest elevation to highest, this included ponderosa pine, piñon pine, Englemann spruce, Douglas fir and limber pine.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2023

He then paints them with natural pigments – purple is made of crushed bugs, for example – and varnishes them with the sap of piñon, the stocky pine tree that dots the countryside.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 29, 2023

In the distance, I could make out the silhouette of the Highland Range, crowned with dark piñon and juniper forests.

From New York Times ● Jan. 24, 2023

The scientists studied data compiled over decades by hundreds of other researchers, who extracted wood cores by boring into long-lived trees such as Douglas firs, piñon pines, ponderosa pines and blue oaks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 14, 2022

Lita sits on a blanket, leaning against the trunk of a piñon tree in its shade.

From "The Last Cuentista" by Donna Barba Higuera

Fewer trees mean less food for the birds, and previous research has shown that the jays will forgo breeding when piñons are scarce.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 16, 2023

But even here the cultivation of maize remained only a small part of a largely hunter-gatherer lifestyle, which included gathering goosefoot and piñons as well as hunting rabbits, bison, and deer.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

"We really want to stay with New Mexico piñons," he said.

From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2022

"Getting a lot of piñons is pretty difficult," said Brandon Campanella of Bosque Coffee Roasters in Los Lunas, New Mexico.

From Salon ● Feb. 3, 2022

Small basket-bowl sieve for parching or toasting corn or piñons.

From Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections Obtained from the Pueblos of Zuñi, New Mexico, and Wolpi, Arizona, in 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 511-594 by James Stevenson

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