Any of several low-growing pines of western North America

Usage examples of pinyon.

Bernie rescued it, declaring it was just what they needed and how thoughtful it was of him and Louisa, and how the basket was beautifully woven, neatly waterproofed with pinyon sap, and would long be treasured.

Grandma Peshlakai if she had any idea who would want to steal her pinyon sap, she stood silent a long moment, hesitating, looking around, making sure Elandra was out of hearing range.

Find out if anyone had ever found the thief who ran off with her two big buckets of pinyon sap.

She and her daughter weave baskets out of willow, or reeds, then waterproof them with sap from pinyon trees and sell them to tourists.

Totter resisted, killed Shewnack, decided to dispose of the body, and he knew that pinyon sap would get things hot enough to turn Shewnack into ashes.

If Emma were here now, she would be reminding him that he should close that chain mail screen in front of the fireplace better because the pinyon logs he was burning would be popping as the sap heated and begin spraying sparks and ashes out onto the floor.

TV, considered the flames working about the pinyon logs, shook his head, and started writing.

Delonie was saying that, two crows arrived, landing in a pinyon just beyond the wall.

Picked up a cherry, found it a little too large to swallow, and flew back into the pinyon with it.

I am going to take out two of those fifty-dollar bills to pay Grandma Peshlakai for that pinyon sap he stole from her, and two more to pay her for about thirty years of interest.

Tommy Vang had obtained travel money, and I had gotten several fifty-dollar bills to repay Grandma Peshlakai for her pinyon sap.

She used her other hand to fan her fingers slowly through the drifting pinyon smoke.

The pinyon smoke spiraled up, diaphanous and glowing with the light of aquamarines.

You will find a high chaparral of pinyon and scrub oak as far east as the reservation line.

So Kinipai pointed that way and told him to see for himself as she dropped the big blanket to the pinyon duff, revealing every bare inch of her short, finn, tawny body.