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

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.

Gen. Morgan drew up his men in an open pine barren, the militia of about four hundred men, under Col.

From A Sketch of the life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion and a history of his brigade by James, William Dobein

The little grey reared and plunged and I landed—where, I don’t know; but the next that I remember, I was standing alone in the pine barren.

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 by Various

The lowest pine barren is higher than the loftiest mangrove wilderness.

From Black Caesar's Clan : a Florida Mystery Story by Terhune, Albert Payson