pinyon
[pin-yuh n, peen-yohn, peen-yohn]
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Also called pinyon pine.
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Cedar and pinyon trees lined the trail, and there were no more firs.
The Light of Western StarsZane Grey
I've been down to Pinyon's to-day, with my croshy-work, for a change.
The Other GirlsMrs. A. D. T. Whitney
Many of the flats of the pinyon belt are grown to basin sagebrush.
Mammals of the San Gabriel Mountains of CaliforniaTerry A. Vaughan
Many a time before had they rounded up their herds and stalked the deer among the thin cedar and pinyon forests.
The Book of the National ParksRobert Sterling Yard
On that slope anything that started rolling never stopped unless it went against one of the rare pine or pinyon trees.
A Book-Lover's Holidays in the OpenTheodore Roosevelt