shinnery
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of shinnery
1900–05, < Louisiana French chênière chenier (perhaps directly < a by-form *chênerie )
Example Sentences
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The reptiles live in sand dunes and among shinnery oak, where they feed on insects and spiders and burrow into the sand for protection from extreme temperatures.
From Seattle Times • May 17, 2024
Light brown and spiny, the lizard lives in sand dunes and among shinnery oak, where it feeds on insects and spiders and burrows into the sand for protection from extreme temperatures.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 30, 2023
The leaked brine killed every sprig of grama and bluestem grasses and shinnery shrubs it touched.
From US News • Sep. 8, 2015
Some of the trees were fairly large, otherwise the land was like Texas shinnery.
From The Life of Me; an autobiography by Johnson, Clarence Edgar
Papa also had another farm twelve miles south of Hamlin, in deep shinnery sand.
From The Life of Me; an autobiography by Johnson, Clarence Edgar
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