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pine needle

n.
The needle-shaped leaf of a pine tree.
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pine needle

n
(Botany) any of the fine pointed leaves of a pine
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pine′ nee`dle


n.
the needlelike leaf of a pine tree.
[1865–70]
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Translations

pine needle

nago di pino
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"They will be hot under foot for days, on account of the thick soil of pine needles and turf," he said, and then grew serious over "poor Ogilvy."
At a sufficient distance over the woods this sound acquires a certain vibratory hum, as if the pine needles in the horizon were the strings of a harp which it swept.
But in my game bag was food, and the old house would afford shelter, if shelter were needed on a warm and dewless night in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, where one may sleep in comfort on the pine needles, without covering.
Then came the "woodsy bit," with her feet pressing the slippery carpet of brown pine needles; the "woodsy bit" so full of dewy morning, surprises,--fungous growths of brilliant orange and crimson springing up around the stumps of dead trees, beautiful things born in a single night; and now and then the miracle of a little clump of waxen Indian pipes, seen just quickly enough to be saved from her careless tread.
A broken spray of pine needles rustled along the roof, or a pine cone dropped with a quick reverberating tap-tap that for an instant startled her.
A toadstool--that vegetable which springs to full growth in a single night--had torn loose and lifted a matted mass of pine needles and dirt of twice its own bulk into the air, and supported it there, like a column supporting a shed.
The babies each had a kitten in one hand and an elegant bouquet of pine needles and grass in the other, and what with the due presentation of the bouquets and the struggles of the kittens, the hugging and kissing was much interfered with.
Hallam was vice president and general manager, Eastern Interstates for Williams' Atlantic-Gulf operating area, where his responsibilities included overall operations and commercial activities for Transco Pipeline, Cardinal Pipeline and Pine Needle LNG.
A team of chemists in England has figured out a way to produce a renewable plastic from pine needle waste, potentially replacing a type that's currently made from crude oil.
Barring pine needle collection logistics, EO could be produced from loblolly pine needles and could serve as an additional revenue stream to existing forestry operations.
Pine needle is a renewable natural resource material produced annually in huge quantity in the Western part of Himalayas (Indian forests: ~ 2.7 million tons/annum (1)).