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pinon
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Population (2000): 1190 Housing Units (2000): 372 Land area (2000): 6.435539 sq. miles (16.667969 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 6.435539 sq. miles (16.667969 sq. km) FIPS code: 56120 Located within: Arizona ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pinon \Pi[~n]"on\, n. [Sp. pi[~n]on.] (Bot.) The edible seed of several species of pine; also, the tree producing such seeds, as Pinus Pinea of Southern Europe, and Pinus Parryana, cembroides, edulis, and monophylla , the nut pines of Western North America. ...
Usage examples of pinon.
Outside, all of New Mexico seemed to tip from Los Alamos, mesa turning to foothills of black nut pines, pinons, on white snow.
Two Mile Mesa, south of Los Alamos, bulldozers had cleared pinon, cedar and cactus to make way for test pads and concrete bunkers.
The land here was flat, flowing into a sagebrush terrain as you approached the highway again, leading to pinon foothills and the high mountains in the east, to the gorge and a formation of delicate gray and beige mesas in the west.
But then they realized they were all home again, and Milagro was white and very beautiful, its juniper and pinon branches laden .
But then they realized they were all home again, and Milagro was white and very beautiful, its jumper and pinon branches laden with a fresh snowfall, and the smell of pinon smoke on the air was almost like a drug making them high.
On a gentle rise stippled with pinons, a radiologist had strung wires on the branches and was hanging white mice from the wires by their tails to determine the effect of the blast on living organisms.
As she was turning right at the stop sign to backtrack around the island of pinons separating the houses from the maintenance yard, the short exchange between the sisters sprang back into her thoughts with sudden clarity.
There were groves of pinon pines scattered among the redwoods, filling the afternoon air with their scent.
Now, he still heated part of his house with pinon, but they had a butane heater too.
Snuffy picked up a stone, chucking it aimlessly at the nearby pile of pinon.
Satisfied that neither Mother Nature (nor Sierra Bell, God forbid) had gone berserk overnight, Bernabe turned around, along with two hundred other people in Milagro, and walked back inside to start, along with two hundred other people in Milagro, a pinon fire in his kitchen's combination wood and gas stove.
Big dollops of wet snow were melting out of the ponderosas and pinons, dropping like scoops of ice cream to splatter on the gravel trail.
A late-afternoon sprinkle had stirred up the dust, and now a slow breeze carried in an almost-radiant smell of dust and dry pinon pine and sage.
He was unzipped, the amber stream of urine steaming as it splashed against the bole of a pinon pine.
The wild game which was, doubtless, abundant furnished them with meat and edible seeds, fruits and roots from native plants like the pinon pine and mesquite which together with the saguaro and mescal, supplied them with a variety of food sufficient for their subsistence as they do, in a measure, the wild Indian tribes of that region at the present day.