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pinon pine

n. small 2- or 3-needled pinon of Mexico and southern Texas [syn: Mexican nut pine, Pinus cembroides]

Usage examples of "pinon pine".

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.

The Armorer pondered on that for a while, picking up a dry branch of pinon pine, snapping it across his knee and tossing it into the heart of their fire.

In the center of this meadow, in a knot of pinon pine and aspen, huddled a gathering of low shingled roofs, with faint smoke rising from a solitary chimney.

Jon-Tom thought he recognized sugar and pinon pine as well as blue spruce.

Down there the mes-quite grew, the pinon pine shook in the wind, and the river ran.

Wind chimes still tinkled in the light breeze, and you could just taste the faint, elusive flavor of pinon pine candles.

As much as he loved Santa Fe and its constant autumn tinge of sweet pinon pine burning softly in a thousand fireplaces, he would never get used to the seven-thousand-foot altitude.

Jim was surrounded by high hills, soft rounded shapes covered with scrub oak and manzanita, wild olive and pinon pine, and here and there a palm.