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pinaster Bot.|paɪˈnæstə(r)|
[a. L. pīnaster (Plin.) wild pine, f. pīnus pine: see -aster. So F. pinastre, It., Sp. pinastro.]
A species of pine (Pinus Pinaster) indigenous to south-western Europe; also called cluster- or star-pine.
(The Pinaster or Wild Pine of the ancients is thought by Daubeny to have been P. maritima of modern botanists.)
1562Turner Herbal ii. 88 Pinaster is nothyng ellis but a wilde pyne tre of a meruelus hyght. 1601Holland Pliny I. 462 The Pine and the Pinaster cary leaues thin and slender..long also and sharp pointed. 1731–3Miller Gard. Dict. s.v. Pinus, Pinus sylvestris..the Pinaster or wild Pine. 1770–4A. Hunter Georg. Ess. (1804) II. 21 The Pinaster is a variety of the Scotch Fir. 1842Selby Brit. Forest Trees 437 The introduction of the Pinaster into England by Gerard..a.d. 1596. 1887C. A. Moloney Forestry W. Afr. 6 The principal timber tree of [St. Helena] is the pinaster. |