pinyon

[ pin-yuhn, peen-yohn, peen-yohn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

For instance, ornithologists posited that aggressive female pinyon jays must suffer “the avian equivalent of PMS,” Cooke writes.

The cougar was at last located by the hounds in a large pinyon on the side of a hill.

The ground cover is essentially the same as that in the pinyon-juniper-muttongrass association described previously.

The vegetation surrounding the M-2 site was a pinyon-juniper-muttongrass association.

The 15 to 20 acres of sagebrush were surrounded by pinyon-juniper forest.

Vegetation was pinyon-juniper woodland with an understory of mixed shrubs.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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