Definitions
Etymologies
- pine (from Middle English, from Old English pīn , from Latin pinus) + cone (from Latin conus, from Ancient Greek (kōnos)) (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The pinecone is my reminder that life can always be restarted," says Jaycee.”
“I thought the 'pinecone' cake was a bike helmet cake.”
“Some people were just born with a pinecone shoved up their butts.”
“I remember how gently he gathered toadstools and wove lean-tos of grass with moss roofs, while I assembled a family of pinecone mice.”
“Zynga Inc., which filed for an initial public offering on Friday, serves lunch and dinner daily to its employees, using specialty ingredients like wasabi oil, Japanese Kewpie mayonnaise and pinecone syrup as well as locally sourced produce.”
The Wall Street Journal: The Perk Bubble Is Growing as Tech Booms Again
“Group" had taken with the 5th leaving VN and the cat fights for slots at Bragg, it was shocking to see how many of the experienced men had gotten tired of the pinecone details and left for senior leadership positions in conventional units.”
“This is a GREAT painting because it tells a story - I wonder if MAX has given his new love a pinecone yet?”
“After the ceremony in the woods, guests will eat brunch on picnic tables with pinecone centerpieces made in the arts-and-crafts hut.”
“For, too, it is the heat of the flame that breaks open the pinecone to release its seed.”
Carol Orsborn: Chaos and Opportunity: The Vibrant Woman's Pledge
“Already the sea all around him was becoming choppy, the waves standing up in points, like the teeth that encase a pinecone.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pinecone’.
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Color Words for Shoes
Vendors can get oddly creative.
amaranth, brindle, iguana, slate black, madder brown, bison, pinecone, seal brown, forest night, burnt orange, monument, beet red and 399 more...
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Flutter
tuberose, golden apple, apple cider, unicorn, extraordinary, Pleiades, Merope, speckle, glitter, rose, pitter-pat, whale and 314 more...
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Words with Method to their Madness
Patterned words! Any word that alternates vowels and consonants with no consonants next to each other, and no vowels next to each other. (And a letter limit of no less than 5)
eleven, every, vowel, lemon, alibi, hopes, limit, cures, caravan, emirate, united arab emirates, honorificabilitud... and 114 more...
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librarygoblin's words
crystal, ghost, mist, snow, labyrinth, citadel, tomb, mystery, arcane, conundrum, echo, dynamo and 389 more...
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Chromonyms
These chromonyms are defined as colors in at least one dictionary (mostly MW3). (Actually there's one fake, for reasons I'll explain someday.) They are all one-word nouns such as "kelly", which can...
absinthe, acacia, acorn, alabaster, alesan, almond, aloma, amaranth, amber, amethyst, anemone, anil and 821 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (P)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
pagan, page, pageant, pageboy, pagoda, paisley, paladin, palfrey, paling, pampas grass, pan, panoply and 194 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, P
pellucid, pertain, pampas, prate, pinecone, philistine, pantocrator, papaverine, postmeridian, potlatch, pharology, pinniped and 622 more...
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wordrainbow
A big list of color names for use on wordrainbow.com
emerald, cherry, coffee, cream, almond, gold, kiwi, green, grass green, aquamarine, beet red, sepia and 714 more...
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Palabrarium
The delicious wonderful words that I love terribly dearly and without which, the world would be a less inventive and worthwhile place. Also, ostensibly, the reason 1984 and esperanto secretly suck.
panoply, footpad, piccalilli, snickersnee, marl, hispid, greengage, slumgullion, golliwog, mumbletypeg, circumlocution, quiescent and 366 more...
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Winter Solstice
Words that have something to do with the holidays that fall on or near the Winter Solstice
Yule, Yule-log, holly, yew, bay, bay-leaf, bayberry, Holly King, Oak King, mistletoe, Christmas tree, star in the East and 150 more...
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astralpancakes's list
I like words, words like
threshold, scythe, pinecone, orbital, isthmus, mellow, leek, lichen, crescent, lepidoptery, kumquat, capricious
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