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单词 pine barren
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pine barrenn.

Brit. /ˈpʌɪn barən/, /ˈpʌɪn barn̩/, U.S. /ˈpaɪn ˌbɛrən/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pine n.2, barren n.
Etymology: < pine n.2 + barren n. Compare earlier pineland n. and pinewood n. 2.
U.S. regional (chiefly southern and eastern).
An area of sandy or peaty land with a (usually thin) covering of pine trees.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [noun] > wooded land > types of
ripplelOE
wildwooda1122
rough1332
firth?a1400
tod stripec1446
osiard1509
bush1523
bush-ground1523
fritha1552
island1638
oak landc1658
pinelandc1658
piney wood1666
broom-land1707
pine barrenc1721
pine savannah1735
savannah1735
thick woods1754
scrub-land1779
olive wood1783
primeval forest1789
open wood1790
strong woods1792
scrub1805
oak flata1816
sertão1816
sprout-land1824
flatwoods1841
bush-land1842
tall timber1845
amber forest1846
caatinga1846
mahogany scrub1846
bush-flat1847
myall country1847
national forest1848
selva1849
monte1851
virgin forest1851
bush-country1855
savannah forest1874
bush-range1879
bushveld1879
protection forest1889
mulga1896
wood-bush1896
shinnery1901
fringing forest1903
monsoon forest1903
rainforest1903
savannah woodland1903
thorn forest1903
tropical rainforest1903
gallery forest1920
cloud forest1922
rain jungle1945
mato1968
the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [adjective] > wooded > types of
bushya1382
ramagea1500
boskya1616
brakya1637
brushy1658
brushed1666
scrubbya1687
pine barrenc1721
bush-grown1837
stumpy1838
bush-skirted1858
bushed1868
bush-covered1873
bush-fringed1891
bush-clad1909
primary forest1909
c1721 J. Barnwell & W. Hammerton MS. Map in W. P. Cumming & L. De Vorsey Southeast in Early Maps (1998) Pl. 48C Pine Barren Land.
1731 Pennsylvania Gaz. 29 Apr.–6 May We had a sandy Pine Barren to walk in, which was covered pretty thick with large Pine Trees.
1767 Bartram's Jrnl. 10 in W. Stork Acct. E. Florida (ed. 2) At Johnson's Bluff..for a mile the sandy pine-barren comes close or near the shore.
1816 B. Waterhouse Jrnl. Young Man Mass. (1911) ix. 330 A Moor, a word not used in America, is used in England to denote a low, marshy piece of ground, or a sterile spot like our pine barrens.
1850 C. Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. (ed. 2) II. 12 I had sometimes to put up with rough quarters in the pine-barrens.
1883 Harper's Mag. Feb. 418/2 Huge pine-barrens near the coast hindered the first efforts of the planter.
1916 J. W. Harshberger (title) Vegetation of the New Jersey pine-barrens.
1952 Guardian 3 Mar. 4/6 This long peninsula..was not much more than a pine-barren, pocketed with swamps, till the late nineteenth century.
1999 Jrnl. Torrey Bot. Soc. 126 213/2 Only a very few pine barrens remain in Virginia.

Compounds

C1.
pine-barren flat n.
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1799 B. Hawkins Sketch Creek County (1848) 65 Poor, pine barren flat.
1990 J. F. Kraus & E. R. Sluder Genecology of Longleaf Pine 13/1 Descriptions of the southern pine forests emphasize that the ‘pine-barren flats’ (Flatwoods)..were dominated by Savannah-like stands of longleaf pine.
pine-barren land n.
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c1721Pine Barren Land [see main sense].
1731 M. Catesby Nat. Hist. Carolina I. p. iv/1 The third and worst Kind of Land is the Pine barren Land.
1860 De Bow's Rev. Nov. 601 The poorest pine barren lands of Florida will produce..a luxuriant crop of Sisal hemp.
1999 Newsday (Nexis) 12 May a31 A 1993 state law restricts or regulates 50,000 acres of pine barren land in eastern Suffolk.
pine-barren stream n.
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1901 C. T. Mohr Plant Life Alabama 125 The pine-barren streams overflow their low banks of shifting sands and gravel.
1954 Amer. Midland Naturalist 52 269 Quillwort... Sluggish pine-barren stream.
C2.
pine-barren beauty n. the plant pyxie or flowering ‘moss’, Pyxidanthera barbulata (family Diapensiaceae), native to the pine barrens of New Jersey.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > climbing, trailing, or creeping shrubs > [noun] > non-British
Paullinia1753
Pothos1754
corchorus1759
water vine1774
cobaea1805
bush-rope1814
combretum1819
kerria1823
pishamin1826
guarana1838
stephanotis1843
lapageria1849
pear-withe1864
waw-waw1864
Bougainvillaea1866
pyxie1882
pine-barren beauty1883
Madagascar jasmine1884
streptosolen1938
1883 W. Robinson Eng. Flower Garden 237/2 Pine Barren Beauty..is an evergreen shrub, yet smaller than many Mosses.
1901 Cycl. Amer. Hort.: N–Q 1475/2 The Pyxie, Flowering Moss or Pine-barren Beauty is a pretty little creeping plant, native only to New Jersey and North Carolina.
1951 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) IV. 1722/2 P. barbulata. Pyxie, Pine-barren Beauty, Flowering Moss.
pine-barren scorpion n. Obsolete rare a large scorpion found in pine barrens.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Arachnida > [noun] > order Scorpiones > unspecified and miscellaneous types
pine-barren scorpion1782
1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer x. 236 Scorpions, from the smallest size, up to the pine barren, the largest species known here.
pine-barren terrapin n. U.S. regional (southern) Obsolete the eastern box turtle, Terrapene carolina.
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Chelonia (turtles and tortoises) > [noun] > suborder Cryptodira > family Emydidae (freshwater turtles) > terrapene carolina (box-turtle)
box tortoise1790
box turtle1804
pine-barren terrapin1836
1836 W. M. Darlington in Ann. Lyceum Nat. Hist. N.-Y. 1828–36 3 124 Testudo clausa..Terrapene carolina... Land turtle of the northern states; Pine-barren tarapin of the southern.
1884 F. W. True in G.B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I iii. 158 The Carolina Box Turtle... In the Southern States it is known as the ‘Pine-barren Terrapin’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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