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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as pine, 1.

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Examples

  • A pine-tree shaped air freshener hung from the rear view mirror, saturating the air with the reek of artificial pine.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • A pine-tree shaped air freshener hung from the rear view mirror, saturating the air with the reek of artificial pine.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • All five have proprietary biotechnology to produce biocatalysts and microbes to create different types of fuel using everything from sugarcane to pine-tree chips.

    Crop of IPOs Provides Expanded Biofuel Bets Lynn Cowan 2011

  • Overhead rose a cloud in the form of Pliny's famous pine-tree, apparently quite solid.

    Rereading: Naples '44 by Norman Lewis 2011

  • A pine-tree shaped air freshener hung from the rear view mirror, saturating the air with the reek of artificial pine.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • A slender pine-tree spanned the screaming foam and bent midway to touch the water.

    CHAPTER 3 2010

  • He began to notice near objects — an open portion of the stream that flashed in the sun, the blasted pine-tree that stood at the base of the slope, and the slope itself, that ran right up to him and ceased two feet beneath the lip of the cave on which he crouched.

    The Wall of the World 2010

  • A pine-tree shaped air freshener hung from the rear view mirror, saturating the air with the reek of artificial pine.

    Etched in Bone Adrian Phoenix 2011

  • Shyly, trying not to be seen by my parents, I tried the steps on my own -- pebbles and pine-tree needles crackling under my soles.

    Patrizia Chen: La Bamba 2010

  • Shyly, trying not to be seen by my parents, I tried the steps on my own -- pebbles and pine-tree needles crackling under my soles.

    Patrizia Chen: La Bamba 2010

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