pinetum

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Pure air -- from the neighbourhood of a pinetum for the sake of the turpentine -- unadulterated wine, and the reflections of an unsophisticated spirit in the presence of the works of nature -- these, my boy, are the best medical appliances and the best religious comforts.

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  1. noun An area planted with pine trees or related conifers, especially for botanical study.

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  • Pure air -- from the neighbourhood of a pinetum for the sake of the turpentine -- unadulterated wine, and the reflections of an unsophisticated spirit in the presence of the works of nature -- these, my boy, are the best medical appliances and the best religious comforts. —  Merry Men
  • The plants that live in society have seldom marked limits, and it happens, that before we reach a palmar or a pinar, * (* Two Spanish words, which, according to a Latin form, denote a forest of palm-trees, palmetum, and of pines, pinetum.) we find solitary palm-trees and pines. —  Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2
  • a pinetum for the sake of the turpentine -- unadulterated wine, and the reflections of an unsophisticated spirit in the presence of the works of nature -- these, my boy, are the best medical appliances and the best religious comforts. —  The Pocket R.L.S., being favourite passages from the works of Stevenson
 

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  1. Latin pīnētum, pine grove, from pīnus, pine; see pine1.

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  1. L. (later Italian pineto, pineta), a pine-grove, from pinus, pine: see pine, n.
 

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