pinery

P3I1N1E1R1Y4

noun

A hothouse or (tropical) area used as a plantation for the cultivation of pineapple plants (genus Ananas) and production of their homonymous fruit.

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Meanings

nounpinery (plural pineries)

plural pineries

  1. A hothouse or (tropical) area used as a plantation for the cultivation of pineapple plants (genus Ananas) and production of their homonymous fruit.

    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,[…]

    2014 May 26, David Dewitt, Precious Cargo: How Foods From the Americas Changed The World, Catapult, →ISBN
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    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.

    2016 December 5, Alan Wilson, Comfort, Pleasure and Prestige: Country-house Technology in West Wales 1750-1930, Troubador Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 116
  2. A pinewood, pinetum, forest or grove where pine trees are grown.

    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]

    1972, Dee Brown, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

Synonyms & antonyms

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Origin

Translations

Finnish kasvihuone ananaksille
  • kasvihuone ananaksillehothouse
German Ananastreibhaus, Ananasgewächshaus
  • Ananastreibhaushothouse
  • Ananasgewächshaushothouse
  • Ananashaushothouse
  • Ananasplantagehothouse
Polish ananasarnia
  • ananasarniahothouse

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Cite this entry
APA

pinery. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pinery

MLA

“pinery.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pinery. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “pinery,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pinery.

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