Pinon Definition

pēnyän, pinyän; pēnyōn, pinyōn, pēnyən, pinyən
pinon, pinons, pinyons
noun

Pinyon.

Webster's New World
Any of several pine trees of northern Mexico and the southwest United States that bear edible, nutlike seeds, especially Pinus edulis.
American Heritage
An edible seed of any of these trees.
American Heritage
(countable, uncountable) A pine nut.
Wiktionary
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Other Word Forms of Pinon

Noun

Singular:
pinon
Plural:
pinons

Origin of Pinon

  • Spanish piñón pine nut, pine cone augmentative of piña from Latin pīnea from feminine of pīneus of pine from pīnus pine tree peiə- in Indo-European roots

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

  • From Spanish piñón.

    From Wiktionary

Pinon Sentence Examples

  • The royal pinon (Erytlrrina velatina) is remarkable for the magnificent purple flowers that cover it.

  • Consider the way that hickory, apple, cedar, or pinon smell when they burn.

  • In very limited spaces on other mountains there are scattered trees - the pinon (nut pine) and the juniper at an altitude between 5000 and 7000 ft.

  • The lower slopes are usually covered with the scrub oak, juniper and pinon; but some mountains, especially those along the eastern border of the Rio Grande Valley, are absolutely treeless.

  • There are firs and spruces on the mountains, characteristic of the Boreal zone; pines characteristic of the Transition zone; pinon juniper, greasewood and the universally conspicuous sage-brush, characteristic of the Upper Sonoran zone.

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Words Starting With

PPIPIN

Words Ending With

NONNON

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pinon

Words Starting With P and Ending With N

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