pine
$ \mathrm{pine}^1 |pīn|
noun
1. (also pine tree) an evergreen coniferous tree that has clusters of long needle-shaped leaves. Many kinds are grown for their soft timber, which is widely used for furniture and pulp, or for tar and turpentine.
Genus Pinus, family Pinaceae: many species, including North America's eastern white pine and western ponderosa pine.
〘植〙 マツ, マツの木(pine tree)
used in names of coniferous trees of other families, e.g., Norfolk Island pine.
used in names of unrelated plants that resemble the pines in some way, e.g., ground pine.
as modifier having the scent of pine needles:
e.g. a pine potpourri.
2. informal, mainly West Indian a pineapple.
DERIVATIVES
pinery |ˈpīnərē| noun
ORIGIN
Old English, from Latin pinus, reinforced in Middle English by Old French pin.
$ \mathrm{pine}^2 |pīn|
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/icons/point.icon LONG, YEARN, HANKER, PINE, HUNGER, THIRST mean to have a strong desire for something.
LONG implies a wishing with one's whole heart and often a striving to attain.
e.g. longed for some rest
YEARN suggests an eager, restless, or painful longing.
e.g. yearned for a stage career
HANKER suggests the uneasy promptings of unsatisfied appetite or desire.
e.g. always hankering for money
PINE implies a languishing or a fruitless longing for what is impossible.
e.g. pined for a lost love
HUNGER and THIRST imply an insistent or impatient craving or a compelling need.
e.g. hungered for a business of his own thirsted for power
verb no object
suffer a mental and physical decline, especially because of a broken heart:
(深い悲しみ･苦痛･飢えなどで)やつれる, やせ衰える(away); «…することを» 切望する «to do»
e.g. she thinks I am pining away from love.
(pine for) miss and long for the return of:
(死［離］別などで) 【愛する人･場所を】寂しく［恋しく］思う, 思いこがれる «for, after» ; 深く悲しむ; 【手に入りそうにない物を】熱望する «for, after»
e.g. I was pining for my boyfriend.
ORIGIN
Old English pīnian ‘(cause to) suffer’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch pijnen, German peinen ‘experience pain’, also to obsolete pine ‘punishment’; ultimately based on Latin poena ‘punishment’.