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pinery en · NOUN

Etymology

From pine + -ery.

Meanings

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

Forms

Translations (6)

pl ananasarnia (hothouse) · de Ananastreibhaus (hothouse) · fi kasvihuone ananaksille (hothouse) · de Ananasgewächshaus (hothouse) · de Ananasplantage (hothouse) · de Ananashaus (hothouse)