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PINE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A coniferous tree

Synonyms:

pine; pine tree; true pine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("pine" is a kind of...):

conifer; coniferous tree (any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones)

Meronyms (parts of "pine"):

pinecone (the seed-producing cone of a pine tree)

Meronyms (substance of "pine"):

pine (straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pine"):

black pine; Japanese black pine; Pinus thunbergii (large Japanese ornamental having long needles in bunches of 2; widely planted in United States because of its resistance to salt and smog)

Japanese red pine; Japanese table pine; Pinus densiflora (pine native to Japan and Korea having a wide-spreading irregular crown when mature; grown as an ornamental)

knobcone pine; Pinus attenuata (medium-sized three-needled pine of the Pacific coast of the United States having a prominent knob on each scale of the cone)

hickory pine; Pinus pungens; prickly pine; table-mountain pine (a small two-needled upland pine of the eastern United States (Appalachians) having dark brown flaking bark and thorn-tipped cone scales)

bristlecone pine; Pinus aristata; Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine (small slow-growing upland pine of western United States (Rocky Mountains) having dense branches with fissured rust-brown bark and short needles in bunches of 5 and thorn-tipped cone scales; among the oldest living things some over 4500 years old)

Monterey pine; Pinus radiata (tall California pine with long needles in bunches of 3, a dense crown, and dark brown deeply fissured bark)

Jersey pine; Pinus virginiana; scrub pine; Virginia pine (common small shrubby pine of the eastern United States having straggling often twisted or branches and short needles in bunches of 2)

Pinus sylvestris; Scotch fir; Scotch pine; Scots pine (medium large two-needled pine of northern Europe and Asia having flaking red-brown bark)

Canadian red pine; Pinus resinosa; red pine (pine of eastern North America having long needles in bunches of two and reddish bark)

swamp pine (any of several pines that prefer or endure moist situations such as loblolly pine or longleaf pine)

jack pine; Pinus banksiana (slender medium-sized two-needled pine of eastern North America; with yellow-green needles and scaly grey to red-brown fissured bark)

frankincense pine; loblolly pine; Pinus taeda (tall spreading three-needled pine of southeastern United States having reddish-brown fissured bark and a full bushy upper head)

Pinus contorta murrayana; Sierra lodgepole pine (tall subspecies of lodgepole pine)

lodgepole; lodgepole pine; Pinus contorta; shore pine; spruce pine (shrubby two-needled pine of coastal northwestern United States; red to yellow-brown bark fissured into small squares)

black pine; Jeffrey's pine; Jeffrey pine; Pinus jeffreyi (tall symmetrical pine of western North America having long blue-green needles in bunches of 3 and elongated cones on spreading somewhat pendulous branches; sometimes classified as a variety of ponderosa pine)

yellow pine (any of various pines having yellow wood)

white pine (any of several five-needled pines with white wood and smooth usually light grey bark when young; especially the eastern white pine)

ancient pine; Pinus longaeva (small slow-growing pine of western United States similar to the bristlecone pine; chocolate brown bark in plates and short needles in bunches of 5; crown conic but becoming rough and twisted; oldest plant in the world growing to 5000 years in cold semidesert mountain tops)

dwarf mountain pine; mountain pine; mugho pine; mugo pine; Pinus mugo; Swiss mountain pine (low shrubby pine of central Europe with short bright green needles in bunches of two)

arolla pine; cembra nut tree; Pinus cembra; Swiss pine; Swiss stone pine (large five-needled European pine; yields cembra nuts and a resinous exudate)

European nut pine; Pinus pinea; stone pine; umbrella pine (medium-sized two-needled pine of southern Europe having a spreading crown; widely cultivated for its sweet seeds that resemble almonds)

Pinus serotina; pond pine (large three-needled pine of sandy swamps of southeastern United States; needles longer than those of the northern pitch pine)

northern pitch pine; Pinus rigida; pitch pine (large three-needled pine of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada; closely related to the pond pine)

black pine; Pinus nigra (large two-needled timber pine of southeastern Europe)

Pinus glabra; spruce pine (large two-needled pine of southeastern United States with light soft wood)

pinon; pinyon (any of several low-growing pines of western North America)

grey-leaf pine; Pinus torreyana; sabine pine; soledad pine; Torrey's pine; Torrey pine (medium-sized five-needled pine of southwestern California having long cylindrical cones)

Holonyms ("pine" is a member of...):

genus Pinus; Pinus (type genus of the Pinaceae: large genus of true pines)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Straight-grained durable and often resinous white to yellowish timber of any of numerous trees of the genus Pinus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("pine" is a kind of...):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pine"):

knotty pine (pine lumber with many knots; used especially for paneling and furniture)

white pine (soft white wood of white pine trees)

yellow pine (hard yellowish wood of a yellow pine)

Holonyms ("pine" is a substance of...):

pine; pine tree; true pine (a coniferous tree)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Have a desire for something or someone who is not present

Example:

I am pining for my lover

Synonyms:

ache; languish; pine; yearn; yen

Classified under:

Verbs of feeling

Hypernyms (to "pine" is one way to...):

hanker; long; yearn (desire strongly or persistently)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pine"):

die (languish as with love or desire)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

pining (a feeling of deep longing)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Pine oil is used for aromatherapy and for its antiseptic qualities in soaps and cleaning products.

(Pine Needle Oil (Pinus Sylvestris), NCI Thesaurus)

The pines are not tall or luxuriant, but they are sombre and add an air of severity to the scene.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

My friend John and I have consulted; and we are about to perform what we call transfusion of blood—to transfer from full veins of one to the empty veins which pine for him.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

“This very night will I set apart a golden ouche to be offered on the shrine of my name-saint. I have pined for this, Aylward, as a young maid pines for her lover.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A dark brown or black thick liquid obtained by roasting pine wood or formed as a by-product in the production of coke.

(Coal Tar, NCI Thesaurus)

Mugo pine oil is used primarily for its aroma but is also used in massage oils.

(Pine Needle Oil Pinus mugo, NCI Thesaurus)

Long-lived trees, such as pines from high elevations and other conifers found across the high-northern latitude boreal forests, can store carbon for many centuries.

(Amount of carbon stored in forests reduced as climate warms, University of Cambridge)

One day the woman was standing by this window and looking down into the garden, when she saw a bed which was planted with the most beautiful rampion (rapunzel), and it looked so fresh and green that she longed for it, she quite pined away, and began to look pale and miserable.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

In a study, an international team of researchers that included the University of Colorado Boulder's Paola Villa, corresponding author of the study and an adjoint curator at the university's Museum of Natural History, reports findings that Neanderthals living in Europe from about 55 to 40 thousand years ago traveled away from their caves to collect resin from pine trees, which they used to glue stone tools to handles made of wood or bone.

(Neanderthals used resin 'glue' for tools, National Science Foundation)

That he had once, by way of experiment, privately removed a heap of these stones from the place where one of his Yahoos had buried it; whereupon the sordid animal, missing his treasure, by his loud lamenting brought the whole herd to the place, there miserably howled, then fell to biting and tearing the rest, began to pine away, would neither eat, nor sleep, nor work, till he ordered a servant privately to convey the stones into the same hole, and hide them as before; which, when his Yahoo had found, he presently recovered his spirits and good humour, but took good care to remove them to a better hiding place, and has ever since been a very serviceable brute.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)