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.
See Monkey's puzzle. [Written also pignon.]
Wikipedia
Pignon is a commune in the Saint-Raphaël Arrondissement, in the Nord Department of Haiti. It has 29,327 inhabitants.
Usage examples of "pignon".
A certain variety of round, hard starchy roots that took well to long cooking came out first, followed by baskets of a mixture of bone marrow, blue bearberries, and a variety of cracked and ground seeds -- pigweed, a mixture of grains, and oily pignon seeds.
We were close to carfeature now, to the ridiculous contraptions of Rube Goldberg, the torture racks on which Big Pete bound Mickey Mouse, the engrenage exterieur a trois pignons, triumph of Renaissance mechanics, Branca, Ramelli, Zonca.