piny

or pine·y

[ pahy-nee ]

adjective

, pin·i·er, pin·i·est.

1. abounding in or covered with pine trees:

   piny hillsides.

2. pertaining to or suggestive of pine trees:

   a piny fragrance.

piny

/ ˈpaɪnɪ /

adjective

1. of, resembling, or covered with pine trees

Word History and Origins

Origin of piny¹

First recorded in 1620–30; pine ¹ + -y ¹

Example Sentences

Numerous bird species, including the Eurasian Jay, Green Finch, Hooded Crow, Masked Shrike, Palestine Sunbird, and Sardinian Warbler rely on the biodiversity provided by Palestine’s wild trees, six species of which are often found in native olive groves: the Aleppo pine, almond, olive, Palestine buckhorn, piny hawthorne, and fig.

From Salon

But odor profiles generated by Deutsch and 13 other volunteers served as a test for a computer program that had been trained to produce these same types of descriptions—such as fruity, cooling, fishy, piny—using chemical structure alone.

From Science Magazine

Ruined castles hanging on the precipices of piny mountains, the impetuous Arve, and cottages every here and there peeping forth from among the trees formed a scene of singular beauty.

From Literature

The country in the neighbourhood of this village resembled, to a greater degree, the scenery of Switzerland; but everything 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.

From Literature

Regina Nyakol Piny, a mother of nine, now lives in a primary school in the village of Wangchot after their home was swamped.

From Seattle Times