Pinaster Definition

pī-năstər
noun
The maritime pine.
American Heritage
A Mediterranean pine (Pinus pinaster) with paired needles and prickly cones.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Pinaster

Noun

Singular:
pinaster
Plural:
pinasters

Origin of Pinaster

  • Latin wild pine from pīnus pine pine1

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Latin, from pinus a pine.

    From Wiktionary

Pinaster Sentence Examples

  • The olive and the chestnut are rare; but the beech reappears, and the Pinus pinaster recalls the Italian pines.

  • On the alpine range itself and its immediate branches, at a height of 6000 to 10,000 ft., we have abundant growth of large forest trees, among which conifers are the most noble and prominent, such as Cedrus Deodara, Abies excelsa, Pinuslongifolia, P. Pinaster,P. Pinea (the edible pine) and the larch.

  • In southern France it has been planted with success on the drift-sands of the Bay of Biscay, though it does not bear the full force of the seablast as well as the pinaster.

  • P. pinaster, the cluster pine or pinaster, is an important species from its vigorous growth in the sand-drifts of the coast, for the purpose of binding which it has been grown more extensively and successfully than any other tree, especially on the dunes of the Bay of Biscay.

  • The pinaster grows naturally on sandy soils around the Mediterranean from Spain to the Levant.

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Words Starting With

PPIPIN

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RERTER

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