Definition of "pine-tree" [pine-tree]

• Same as pine, 1. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "A slender pine-tree spanned the screaming foam and bent midway to touch the water."
• "All five have proprietary biotechnology to produce biocatalysts and microbes to create different types of fuel using everything from sugarcane to pine-tree chips."
• "He began to notice near objects — an open portion of the stream that flashed in the sun, the blasted pine-tree that stood at the base of the slope, and the slope itself, that ran right up to him and ceased two feet beneath the lip of the cave on which he crouched."