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ˈpine-ˌbarren U.S.
[f. pine n.2 + barren n.3]
a. A level sandy tract of land, covered scantily with pine-trees: chiefly in the Southern States.
1731Pennsylvania Gaz. 29 Apr.–6 May 1/2 We had a sandy Pine Barren to walk in, which was covered pretty thick with large Pine Trees. 1737Wesley Jrnl. 2 Dec. (1872) I. 62 (Georgia) The land is of four sorts,—pine-barren, oak-land, swamp, and marsh. 1743M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina II. p. iv/1 The third and worst Kind of Land is the Pine barren Land. 1765J. Bartram Jrnl. 27 Dec. in W. Stork Acc. E. Florida (1766) 10 At Johnson's Bluff..for a mile the sandy pine-barren comes close or near the shore. 1883J. Fiske in Harper's Mag. Feb. 418/2 Huge pine-barrens near the coast hindered the first efforts of the planter. 1901C. T. Mohr Plant Life Alabama 125 The pine-barren streams overflow their low banks of shifting sands and gravel. 1916J. W. Harshberger (title) Vegetation of the New Jersey pine-barrens. 1952Guardian 3 Mar. 4/6 This long peninsula, traded back and forth for two centuries between Spain, France and Britain, was not much more than a pine-barren, pocketed with swamps, till the late nineteenth century. 1976Hortus Third (L. H. Bailey Hortorium) 932/2 Pyxidanthera... Creeping, evergreen shrublets, forming cushionlike masses, native to pine barrens from N[ew] J[ersey] to S[outh] C[arolina].
b. attrib., as pine-barren beauty, a small creeping evergreen, Pyxidanthera barbulata (family Diapensiaceæ); pine-barren scorpion, a large scorpion found in pine-barrens; pine-barren terrapin, the box tortoise, Terrapene carolina.
1883W. Robinson Eng. Flower Garden 237/2 Pine Barren Beauty..is an evergreen shrub, yet smaller than many Mosses. 1901L. H. Bailey Cycl. Amer. Hort. III. 1475/2 The Pyxie, Flowering Moss or Pine-barren Beauty is a pretty little creeping plant, native only to New Jersey and North Carolina. 1951Dict. Gardening (R. Hort. Soc.) IV. 1722/2 P[yxidanthera] barbulata. Pyxie, Pine-barren Beauty, Flowering Moss.
1782Crevecoeur Lett. 236 Scorpions, from the smallest size, up to the pine barren, the largest species known here.
1884G. B. Goode Fisheries U.S.: Nat. Hist. Aquatic Animals 158 The Carolina Box Turtle... In the Southern States it is known as the ‘Pine-barren Terrapin’. |