pine1
n.
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(also pine tree)
an evergreen coniferous tree having clusters of long needle-shaped leaves, grown for its soft wood or for tar and turpentine.
[Genus Pinus: many species.]
▸used in names of coniferous trees of other families, e.g. Chile pine.
- used in names of unrelated plants that resemble the pines in some way, e.g. screw pine.
Derivative
- pinery n.
- piny
(also piney)
adj.
Etymology
OE, from L. pinus, reinforced in ME by OFr. pin.
pine2
v.
suffer a mental and physical decline, especially because of sorrow.
▸
(pine for)
miss and long for the return of.
Etymology
OE pīnian ‘(cause to) suffer’, of Gmc origin; ult. based on L. poena ‘punishment’.