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单词 pinewood
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pinewoodn.adj.

Brit. /ˈpʌɪnwʊd/, U.S. /ˈpaɪnˌwʊd/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pine n.2, wood n.1
Etymology: < pine n.2 + wood n.1 Compare earlier pine tree wood n. at pine tree n. Compounds 1.
A. n.
1. The timber of the pine tree.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > pine
pine?a1450
pinewood1601
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxiv. xii. 510 Some..have written, that Mysy is engendred by the means of a fire made with pine wood [Fr. bois de Pin; L. ligni pineae], in the hollow veines..of brasse ore.
1710 T. Nairne Let. from S. Carolina 12 Upon the Floor is built up a large Pile of dry Pine-wood, split in Pieces.
1772 T. Nugent tr. B. Cellini Life (new ed.) II. 155 I turned my thoughts to my furnace... Thus I with great alacrity excited my men to lay on the pine-wood.
1815 J. Tweddell Remains lxx. 315 (note) A small bundle of splinters of pine-wood.
1850 C. Lyell 2nd Visit U.S. (ed. 2) II. 32 Holding..large blazing torches of pine-wood.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xi. 188 The barnacle myth is first found in the manuscript of Neckam (d. 1217), who describes how ‘bernekke birds’ come out of pinewood steeped for a long time in the sea.
1991 P. Heselton Elements of Earth Mysteries (BNC) 94 Big bonfires made of pitchy pinewood have a peculiar mystic fascination.
2. A wood or forest of pine trees.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > pines and allies > assemblage of
pinewood1652
piney wood1666
pinery1783
pinetum1828
1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved xxv. 169 And therefore on the barrennest land they plant Birch, Pine wood, Firre, Pitch tree, and Larsh.
1673 J. Ray Observ. Journey Low-countries 80 After one half-hours riding we entred into Pine-Woods, the first we met withal: They reach'd almost to our Lodging.
1717 Atlas Geographus V. 378/2 The Pine-Woods about the Springs of the River Igai in the Mountains of Tape.
1790 Pennsylvania Packet 11 Oct. 3/4 A ganninipper is a kind of large horse-fly frequent in pine woods.
1813 W. S. Walker Poems 144 No breezes waved the pine-wood tall.
1872 R. G. McClellan Golden State xvii. 204 These hogs..are somewhat like the North Carolina pine~woods hogs.
1939 E. E. Murphey Wings at Dusk 13 Whenever I see one Flushing befoh me Histing his flag, like a buck in de pine-wood [etc.].
1995 Daily Tel. 8 May 4/7 The three-fold increase in commercial coniferous woodlands since 1945 has been at the expense of moorland, native pinewoods, heaths and upland bogs.
B. adj. (attributive).
1. Covered with or bordered by pine trees; of or relating to pine trees.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [adjective] > of or relating to pine-tree and allies
piney1626
pinewood1693
pinal1791
pinaceous1863
1693 J. Clayton in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 945 That which is called Pine-wood Land.
1798 R. Polwhele Influence of Local Attachment I. 28 Reluctant from his pinewood gloom, he roves Thro' soft savannahs warm, thro' gay-green whispering groves.
1816 J. Marsden Mission 33 I've felt his woes, when cold and sleepless laid In the log hut beneath the pine wood shade.
1882 Harper's Mag. July 248/2 We must go back some years to a little flag station in a pine-wood clearing on Long Island.
1919 Outing Mar. 306/3 I glanced down the dim pinewood road.
1992 M. Atherden Upland Brit. viii. 140 Some of the interesting plants from the pinewood ground flora find their way into the plantations.
2. Made from the timber of the pine tree.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [adjective] > of or relating to pine-tree and allies > of or relating to assemblage of pines
piney wood1666
pinewood1790
pinewoody1945
1790 Public Laws State S. Carolina 299 They are hereby authorised, empowered and required to lay out..a public road from or near the plantation of Elijah Merida Baiilie aforesaid, by or near the pine wood house.
1855 Harper's Mag. June 131/2 The captain..ordered his summary burial on shore, by the light of pine-wood torches.
1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey II. 164 The smoke of pinewood fires.
1976 Derbyshire Times 3 Sept. 18/5 (advt.) A modernized semi-detached house having the benefit of three bedrooms, attractive pinewood units to the kitchen, [etc.].
1995 Kay & Co. (Worcester) Catal. Autumn–Winter 771/1 A pine wood bedstead with turned posts and spindles at head end and a low foot end.

Derivatives

ˈpinewoody adj. suggestive or redolent of pinewoods; = piney adj. 2.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [adjective] > of or relating to pine-tree and allies > of or relating to assemblage of pines
piney wood1666
pinewood1790
pinewoody1945
1945 J. Betjeman New Bats in Old Belfries 6 Mushroomy, pinewoody evergreen smells.
1992 Canad. Chem. News (Nexis) Apr. 14 The acetate of this compound has a fresh pinewoody odor and has found wide usage in the perfume industry.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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