pine has definitions from the field of botany
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[ noun ] (botany) a coniferous tree

Synonyms

true_pine pine_tree

Used in print

(Richard Ferber, Bitter Valley....)

There was brush , and stands of pine that no grass could grow under , and places so steep that cattle would n't stop to graze .

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[ noun ] straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus

Used in print

(Jesse Hill Ford, Mountains of Gilead....)

Out of the church and into his big car , it tooling over the road with him driving and the headlights sweeping the pike ahead and after he hit college , his expansiveness , the quaint little pine board tourist_courts , cabins really , with a cute naked light_bulb in the ceiling ( unfrosted and naked as a streetlight , like the one on the corner where you used_to play when you were a kid , where you watched the bats swooping in after the bugs , watching in between your bouts at hopscotch ) , a room complete with moths pinging the light and the few casual cockroaches cruising the walls , an insect Highway_Patrol with feelers waving .

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[ verb ] have a desire for something or someone who is not present

Synonyms

ache yen yearn languish

Examples

"She ached for a cigarette" "I am pining for my lover"

Related terms

long die longing pining

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 6161
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[ verb ] desire strongly or persistently
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