pinyon
Americannoun
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It is high desert; ocotillos, scrubby junipers and sagebrush bushes dot the earth between the pinyon pines that give her unincorporated community its name.
From New York Times • Jan. 12, 2024
Pale blue with a white bib, the pinyon jay typically mates for life and can be choosey about where to build a nest.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 16, 2023
As a teenager, he’d drive from his family’s cattle ranch, down a sagebrush steppe dotted with juniper and pinyon and into town for a night of dancing.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2023
Firefighters fled the 750-foot-high fire front — as tall as a 53-floor building — as it chewed through pine, pinyon and juniper dried by a record-hot spring.
From Salon • Dec. 28, 2022
Captive mice were especially fond of pinyon nuts, and these probably provide a substantial part of the diet of Peromyscus in the autumn and early winter.
From Comparative Ecology of Pinyon Mice and Deer Mice in Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado by Douglas, Charles L.
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