piny

English

Alternative forms

• piney

Etymology

From pine +‎ -y.

Adjective

piny (comparative pinier, superlative piniest)

1. Of, pertaining to, or having many pines.

   a piny fragrance

   • 1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter II, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume III, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC, page 29:

     The country in the neighbourhood of this village resembled, to a greater degree, the scenery of Switzerland; but every thing is on a lower scale, and the green hills want the crown of distant white Alps, which always attend on the piny mountains of my native country.

Anagrams

• pyin

Wik-Mungkan

Noun

piny

1. father's elder sister