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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pine cone

1690s, from pine (n.) + cone (n.). An earlier word for it was pine nut (Old English pinhnyte); also see pineapple.

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pine cone

n. The seed-bearing conical fruit of a pine tree.

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Pine Cone (Fabergé egg)

The Pine Cone egg is a jewelled enameled Easter egg made under the supervision of the Russian jeweller Peter Carl Fabergé in 1900. The egg was made for Alexander Kelch, who presented it to his wife, Barbara (Varvara) Kelch-Bazanova.

Usage examples of "pine cone".

I followed a few bruised blades of grass, the edge of a heel print, a crushed pine cone, and a slip in a muddy place, and I came through a patch of scattered spruce and into the open beyond.

It was a good-sized pine cone, John Rourke reminded himself as Michael’.

Find berries from the rowan tree, Add one small green pine cone, With young leaf of raspberry, Pounded flat beneath a stone.

Then I walked out into the hot light and I put my hands in my pockets and kicked a pine cone across the road.

But a pine cone had splashed into the laundry pond, and Shanda would know of it.

He gestured toward a pine cone thirty yards off: It was a big cone, wide as a man's hand, and longer.

In his seat behind the nursemaid's saddle, Weryl waved a hand clutched around a small brown pine cone.

He turned his back, contempt in every line of his body as he flicked the scales from his pine cone out into the dark.

The Ctencri, he noted, had paused to touch fingers to the Orsphis's pine cone—.

But the work had been therapy for him when he'd first come here, still weak from his wounds, and so tightly drawn that a pine cone dropping from a tree in the night had been enough to send him diving from the bed, reaching for his knife.

Them little legs of his ain't hardly long enough to jump him over a pine cone.

Satsu and I had no shoes to put away, but just as I was about to walk into the house, I felt something strike me softly on my backside, and a pine cone fell onto the wood floor between my feet.

Like a pine cone, it is vaguely pointed at one end, larger and rounded at the other, and the whole thing is smaller than your littlest fingernail.

The avenue was lined with Cycads that were at least two hundred years old, thick-stemmed palm-like plants each with a golden fruit the size of hogshead, like a monstrous pine cone, nestled in the centre of the graceful fronds.