pine family

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noun

1. the plant family Pinaceae, characterized by mostly evergreen, resinous trees having narrow, often needlelike leaves, male flowers in catkinlike clusters, and scaly female flowers that develop into fruit in the form of a woody cone, and including cedar (genusCedrus ), fir, hemlock, larch, pine, and spruce.

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But if the more subtle aroma found in the Georgia woods is more to your liking, choose something from the pine family.

From Time Magazine Archive

The gingko belongs to the yew family, which is akin to the pine family.

From Studies of Trees by Levison, Jacob Joshua

The Pine Family.—The pine family includes the various species of pine, tamarack, spruce, hemlock, fir, juniper, larch, cypress, and cedar.

From Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges by Redway, Jacques W. (Jacques Wardlaw)

There were still the same trees, belonging, for the most part, to the pine family.

From The Mysterious Island by Verne, Jules

The palm takes the place of the eucalyptus to a certain extent, and the woods teem with the bunya-bunya,—a very desirable and ornamental tree, which belongs to the pine family.

From Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands by Ballou, Maturin Murray