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pīnĕus , a, um, adj. id.,
I.of the pine, piny, pine-: “pinea velamina,” pine-wreaths, Lucr. 4, 587: “ardor,” a fire of pine-wood, Verg. A. 11, 786: “silva,” id. ib. 9, 85: “plaga pinea,” a piny tract, id. ib. 11, 320: “claustra,” i. e. of the wooden horse before Troy, id. ib. 2, 258: “fert avidas in pinea Turnus Texta faces,” i. e. into the ships, Ov. M. 14, 530; so, “pinea moles,” a ship, Prop. 4 (5), 6, 20. “compages,” Mart. 9, 76, 4: “nuclei,” Cels. 6, 11; 2, 22: “nuces,” Plin. 15, 10, 9, § 35.—
II. Subst.: pīnĕa , ae, f., a pine-nut, a pine-cone: “pineam serere,” Col. 5, 10; so id. 10, 239; Lampr. Commod. 9.—
2. pīnĕum , i, n. (late Lat.), a pine-cone; plur., Vulg. 2 Par. 2, 8.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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    • Old Testament, 2 Chronicles, 2.8
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 14.530
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 11.786
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 4.587
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 15.35
    • A. Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 2.22
    • A. Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina, 6.11
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 5.10
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