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Pinus
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Pi′nus
,Noun.
[L., a pine tree.]
(Bot.)
A large genus of evergreen coniferous trees, mostly found in the northern hemisphere. The genus formerly included the firs, spruces, larches, and hemlocks, but is now limited to those trees which have the primary leaves of the branchlets reduced to mere scales, and the secondary ones (pine needles) acicular, and usually in fascicles of two to seven. See
Pine
. Definition 2024
Pinus
Pinus
See also: pinus
Translingual
Pinus contorta
Proper noun
Pinus f
Hypernyms
- (genus): Plantae - kingdom; Pinophyta - division; Pinopsida - class; Pinales - order; Pinaceae - family
Hyponyms
- (genus): Pinus subg. Ducampopinus, Pinus subg. Pinus, Pinus subg. Strobus - subgenera
- Pinus contorta, Pinus roxburghii, Pinus strobus, Pinus sylvestris - selected species
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List of Pinus species on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
pinus
pinus
See also: Pinus
English
Noun
pinus (plural pinuses)
- (botany) Any member of the genus Pinus; a pine.
- 1839, J. C. Loudon, The Gardener's Magazine (page 420)
- I have been invited to see the garden of Baron Zanoli, situated on the high road from Monza to Milan, in which I am told there are fine exotic trees and shrubs, and especially a rich collection of pinuses.
- 1853, George Greenwood, The tree-lifter (page 265)
- As the generality of pinuses grow by nature into magnificent and gigantic forest-trees, they should, I think, be planted in our parks as well as in our flower-gardens, shrubberies, and lawns.
- 1839, J. C. Loudon, The Gardener's Magazine (page 420)
Latin
pīnus (a pine)
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *poy- (“sap, juice”). Cognate with Sanskrit पितु (pitu, “sap, juice, resin”), English fat.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈpiː.nus/
Noun
pīnus f (variously declined, genitive pīnūs or pīnī); fourth declension, second declension
- pine tree
- pinewood, or a thing made of such wood
- lance, spear
- wreath of pine leaves
- pine forest, pineland
Inflection
The declension of this noun is variable. It may be declined as either a fourth declension or a second declension noun.
Fourth declension.
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Second declension.
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Derived terms
Descendants
References
- pinus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- pinus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- PINUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “pinus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.