pine cone
Noun
Meaning
pine cone (plural pine cones)
Alternative form of pinecone.
pine-cone (plural pine-cones)
Alternative form of pinecone
Alternative names
pine-cone
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Examples
Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running from its bottom up its sides to the top, and you will find an extraordinary truth: recurring numbers, ratios and proportions.
I've never owned an actual trail-running shoe myself, but maybe I should. My favorite paths are fraught with peril, much of it skulking at shoelace level. A rock, a root, an errant pine cone. Wham, and you're down, choking in dust and picking pebbles from wounds in your forearms and knees.
Pissed off like a little squirrel with a frozen pine cone.
By 2003 the event had become tradition, and the current metallic pine cone was designed and built by Frank Mayorga of Mayorga Welding in Flagstaff.
He called it piña de Indias, which can be correctly translated as "pine cone of the Indies."
As such, you must worry only about the strength of your sun protection factor and not how you will hit a ball that lies next to a Torrey pine cone hiding in the rough.