Definitions for stone-pine

stone-pine stone pine

Stone-Pine is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 363 anagrams from letters in stone-pine (-eeinnopst).

Definitions for stone-pine

noun

  1. Also called umbrella pine, parasol pine. a tree, Pinus pinea, native to southern Europe, having branches forming an umbrellalike crown and bearing edible, nutlike seeds.
  2. any of several piñons.

Origin of stone-pine

First recorded in 1750-60

Examples for stone-pine

They never saw a stone pine or a eucalyptus but they named and admired it; they never glimpsed Soracte but they exclaimed.

When the stone pine was completed, he took a glass of wine and selected the material for the cypresses.

There are no well-marked varieties of the stone pine, though in its native districts geographical forms may occur.

The stone pine, Pinus pinea, which Turner knew how to use with so much effect in his Italian landscapes.

The pin, the seed found in the cone of the stone pine, is a very small but pleasant nut.

Hence, in full-grown trees of the stone pine there is often a similar curvature at the base of the trunk to that of the pinaster.

After this he needed a stone pine, a cypress, a marble palace and a terrace with oranges on espaliers.

At Ravenna there is still a large forest of stone pine, Pinus pinea, though it has been much reduced.

The stone pine and the cypress are typical instances of the sublime associated with the vertical in nature.

Word Value for stone-pine
Scrable

5

Words with friends

6

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