Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A forested area in which pine trees predominate.
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- noun a
forest area with an abundance ofpine trees .
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Examples
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Currently, Dr. Lloyd is studying reintroduced populations of Eastern Bluebirds and Brown-headed Nuthatches in Everglades National Park in an effort to understand the environmental factors that drive variation in demographic rates, the effect of wildfire and fuels management on pineland birds, and the conservation and taxonomy of Brown-headed Nuthatches on Grand Bahama Island.
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A fire that burned 17,000 acres of pineland is under control this morning.
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Biologists estimate that there may be fewer than 10,000 of these classic pineland birds alive.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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Biologists estimate that there may be fewer than 10,000 of these classic pineland birds alive.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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Biologists estimate that there may be fewer than 10,000 of these classic pineland birds alive.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States Janine M. Benyus 1989
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Ranging, as these fine birds will, over a mile or two of woods abounding in their wild brethren, convenient mistakes were often made by the pineland gunners, whose rifles were always ready to pick off a stray gobbler without waiting to know whether he was wild or tame, and so the old gentleman introduced the white stock to prevent the possibility of such errors.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various
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It was located on an old country place of four hundred acres of pineland, with numerous springs, and the building was very large and handsome.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger
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He was as much at home in the saddle as an English fox-hunter or a Don Cossack, and the only wheeled vehicles in his spacious carriage-house were the heavy family coach, and the light sulky in which his summer trips were made between the pineland and the plantation.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various
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About a mile in the opposite direction as we walk through a little belt of wet pineland, where the woodcock runs across our path or whistles up from the wet leaves, we come suddenly upon a dozen or more little basins, the largest not over six feet by nine, which have no outlet whatever.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various
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I found that she had gone up to the pineland for a walk, and thither I betook myself speedily.
Further Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1920
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