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English
Etymology
From pine + -ery.
Noun
pinery (plural pineries)
- A hothouse or (tropical) area used as a plantation for the cultivation of pineapple plants (genus Ananas) and production of their homonymous fruit.
2014 May 26, David Dewitt, Precious Cargo: How Foods From the Americas Changed The World, Catapult, →ISBN:The record weight for pinery-grown pineapples was an astonishing fourteen pounds, twelve ounces—a weight that no imported pineapple could achieve. Pineapples fit neatly into the national crazes for natural things in England, […]
2016 December 5, Alan Wilson, Comfort, Pleasure and Prestige: Country-house Technology in West Wales 1750-1930, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 116:while Margam was exceptional in the scale of its orangery, it was not alone […] There was, for example, a peach house at Stradey Castle, a melon house and vinery at Nanteos, while Middleton Hall had both a peach house and a pinery. Pineapples were particularly prized because of their flavour and spectacular appearance.
- A pinewood, pinetum, forest or grove where pine trees are grown.
1972, Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee:Early in the Moon of Popping Trees they [High Back Bone, Yellow Eagle, and Crazy Horse] began tantalizing the woodcutters in the pinery and the soldiers guarding the wagons which brought wood to Fort Phil Kearny. [Red Cloud's War, 1866]
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