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Pinetum   Listen
noun
Pinetum  n.  A plantation of pine trees; esp., a collection of living pine trees made for ornamental or scientific purposes.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... Ravenna that orchards and gardens were cultivated on the spot where once the galleys of the Caesars rode at anchor. Groves of pines sprang up along the shore, and in their lofty tops the music of the wind moved like the ghost of waves and breakers plunging upon distant sands. This Pinetum stretches along the shore of the Adriatic for about forty miles, forming a belt of variable width between the great marsh and the tumbling sea. From a distance the bare stems and velvet crowns of the pine-trees stand up like palms that cover an oasis on Arabian sands; but at a ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series • John Addington Symonds



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