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Definition of Pinecones
1. pinecone [n] - See also: pinecone
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinecones
Literary usage of Pinecones
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1903)
"The peasants camped in the little forest-clearing, busied through the daylight
in drying in the sun their harvest of gathered pinecones, turned disappointed ..."
2. Americanisms: The English of the New World by Maximilian Schele De Vere (1872)
"... Texas and the Southwest to the palatable pinecones of a screw-pine there (Pandanus).
The Coffee-tree (Gymnocladus canadensis), often called Kentucky ..."
3. A Pushcart at the Curb by John Dos Passos (1922)
"... notes that might have waked the mad women sleeping among pinecones in the
hills and stung them to headlong joy of the presence of their mad ..."
4. A Pushcart at the Curb by John Dos Passos (1922)
"... notes that might have waked the mad women sleeping among pinecones in the
hills and stung them to headlong joy of the presence of their mad ..."
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