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pine cone
noun
- the cone or strobile of a pine tree.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of pine cone1
First recorded in 1685–95
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Example Sentences
Thus we see the phallus associated with the pine cone and other elements of vegetative life.
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Notice that it is covered with scales which overlap much as do the tiles of a roof or the spines of a pine cone.
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Then from not far distant there came the familiar clatter of a dry pine cone in the manzanita tops.
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The involuntary start that shook the pine cone from his hand freed Phil's nostrils of the anaesthetic.
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They were beautiful and very tame, and one was nibbling at what I concluded must have been a seed from a pine-cone.
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