pinons

As I had conjectured, on viewing them from the plain, the trees of light-green foliage were "pinons" -- the "nut-pine" (_Pinus edulis_), of which there are several species in Northern Mexico, whose cones contain seeds edible and nutritious.

The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Mayne Reid 1850

Flying in over the mountains and seeing the desert and the scrub pines, pinons, and junipers brought back a lot of good memories.

April 2005 2005

Just sitting there peacefully among the bees and grass and pinons rusting away.

Archive 2005-04-01 Maya Chalee 2005

Just sitting there peacefully among the bees and grass and pinons rusting away.

Putting things together and old beat up trucks Maya Chalee 2005

In the country down below where the little pinons grow,

Old Dolores 2001

Coyotes began a conversation of yips and yodels among the pinons in the hills behind the casino.

Excerpt: Hunting Badger by Tony Hillerman 1999

The colors -- the bleached blond rock of the cliff dwellings, the red sandstone, the gray-greens of the pinons and junipers, the browns of the soil -- were muted and in transition, fighting to find the right blend of day hues and night hues to meld into a balance for dusk.

Higher Authority White, Stephen, 1951- 1994

There were pinons with a rich harvest of nuts to be gathered in season, and some stunted fruit trees still yielding a measure of fruit.

Galactic Derelict Norton, Andre 1959

Pine nuts or pinons 40.6 59.4 3.4 14.6 61.9 17.3 2.8 3,364

Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Seventh Annual Meeting Washington, D. C. September 8 and 9, 1916.

Just look at the pinons growing up the sides like tufts, along with the funny looking clumps of stunted cedars.

The Saddle Boys of the Rockies Lost on Thunder Mountain James Carson