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

Schenectady is a German word, and means pine barren.

From The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816 by Ryerson, Egerton

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

From A Florida Sketch-Book by Torrey, Bradford

It was really a pine barren, such as may be seen to this day in what is called the wire-grass region of southern Georgia.

From Stories Of Georgia by Harris, Joel Chandler

The southern provinces are the countries where nature has formed the greatest variety of alligators, snakes, serpents; and scorpions, from the smallest size, up to the pine barren, the largest species known here.

From Letters from an American Farmer by St. John de Crèvecoeur, J. Hector