pine barren

American  

noun

1. a tract of sandy or peaty soil in which pine trees are the principal growth, as in low-lying areas near the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States.

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Etymology

Origin of pine barren

An Americanism dating back to 1725–35

Example Sentences

In the blackness before dawn, the Silver Meteor streaked through the South Carolina pine barren.

From Time Magazine Archive

More interesting, and a thousand times more memorable, than any flower or bird was the pine barren itself.

From A Florida Sketch-Book by Torrey, Bradford

One does for the Southern pine barren what the other does for the Northern berry pasture.

From A Florida Sketch-Book by Torrey, Bradford

"I hope not," he said,—as if liberty to buy and sell would be a dreadful blow to a man living in a shanty in a Florida pine barren!

From A Florida Sketch-Book by Torrey, Bradford

Whether the monotonous stretches of pine barren depress mentally, or frequent recurring "ager" prostrates physically, who shall say?

From Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death by DeLeon, T. C.