Pinery

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A hothouse or (tropical) area used as a plantation for the cultivation of pineapple plants (genus Ananas) and production of their homonymous fruit.

    "The record weight for pinery-grown pineapples was an astonishing fourteen pounds, twelve ounces—a weight that no imported pineapple could achieve. Pineapples fit neatly into the national crazes for natural things in England,[…]"

  2. 2
    A pinewood, pinetum, forest or grove where pine trees are grown.

    "Early in the Moon of Popping Trees they [High Back Bone, Yellow Eagle, and Crazy Horse] began tantalizing the woodcutters in the pinery and the soldiers guarding the wagons which brought wood to Fort Phil Kearny. [Red Cloud's War, 1866]"

Etymology

From pine + -ery.

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