pine barren

American  

noun

1. a tract of sandy or peaty soil in which pine trees are the principal growth, as in low-lying areas near the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States.

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Etymology

Origin of pine barren

An Americanism dating back to 1725–35

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pine barren

In the blackness before dawn, the Silver Meteor streaked through the South Carolina pine barren.

From Time Magazine Archive

All things considered, the pine barren country is very attractive, and if there were grass, water and game, it would be a fine place for a hunter.

From Hunting in Many Lands The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club by Various

The southern provinces are the countries where nature has formed the greatest variety of alligators, snakes, serpents; and scorpions, from the smallest size, up to the pine barren, the largest species known here.

From Letters from an American Farmer by St. John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector

The eyrie had become "tiresome," the fragrance of the orange flowers "enervating;" as for pine barrens, she never wished to see a pine barren again.

From East Angels by Woolson, Constance Fenimore

There was a veritable paradise of birds in the pine barren, Dick Sherrill had said, robins and bluebirds, flickers and woodpeckers with blazing cockades, shrikes and chewinks.

From Diane of the Green Van by Dalrymple, Leona