Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Feeding upon the seeds or kernels of pine-cones, as do the crossbills. [Rare.]
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It is a species of no economical importance and is too inaccessible for the profitable gathering of its large nuts, which are devoured in quantity by squirrels and by Clark's crow, a bird of the same genus with the pinivorous Nutcracker of Europe.
The Genus Pinus George Russell Shaw 1892
reesetee commented on the word pinivorous
(Obsolete) Feeding on pine kernels.
July 30, 2008