Advertisement - Continue reading below

Definition of "piney" [pin•ey]

  • Variant of piny. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "piney" in a sentence
  • "With spicy flavors inflected with what some call piney and others graphite notes."
  • "It's known for having -- known as the piney woods."
  • "Time, and the pushing a railroad through this eastern portion of the State, have effected vast changes for the better, and among these quaintly called piney-woods people now are families of wealth and cultivation."