piny

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Etymology

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From pine +‎ -y.

Adjective

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piny (comparative pinier, superlative piniest)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or having many pines.
    a piny fragrance
    • 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter II, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. [], volume III, London: [] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, page 29:
      The country in the neighbourhood of this village resembled, to a greater degree, the scenery of Switzerland; but every thing is on a lower scale, and the green hills want the crown of distant white Alps, which always attend on the piny mountains of my native country.

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Noun

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piny

  1. father's elder sister