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Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See pine.

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  • Then, too, you can save your pennies and dimes, so that before Christmas comes you can go into the stores and buy some of the books and playthings that children like best; and all of you who can must tie on your warm hoods and scamper away into the woods after the lovely prince's-pine and scarlet berries.

    Harper's Young People, December 16, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly Various

  • A pretty evergreen to mix with the more feathery varieties is the _Chimaphila umbellata_, or prince's-pine.

    Harper's Young People, December 23, 1879 An Illustrated Weekly Various

  • Above us, among the stones of the slope, hang bunches of Christmas fern; around the foot of the trees we uncover trailing clusters of gray-green partridge vine, glowing with crimson berries; we rake up the prince's-pine, pipsissewa, creeping-Jennie, and wintergreen red with ripe berries -- a whole bouquet of evergreens, exquisite, fairy-like forms that later shall gladden our Christmas table.

    The Hills of Hingham Dallas Lore Sharp 1899

  • Of these the _Pyrolaceæ_ includes the pretty little pyrolas and prince's-pine (_Chimaphila_) (Fig.  116,

    Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell

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