pine cone

A pine cone from a European Black Pine

English

Alternative forms

Wikipedia

• pinecone
• pine-cone

Etymology

pine (from Middle English, from Old English pīn , from Latin pinus) + cone (from Latin conus, from Ancient Greek (kōnos))

Noun

pine cone (plural pine cones)

1. The seed-bearing conical fruit of a pine tree.

Related terms

• pineal
• pineapple
• pinedrops
• pinene
• pine nut
• pinery
• pinesap
• pine siskin
• pine tar
• pinetum
• piney
• pinewood
• piny
• fir-cone
• seed cone

Translations

the seed-bearing cone of a pine tree

• Albanian: bloçkë (sq) f
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: pinya (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 松塔 (cmn) (sōngtǎ)

• Danish: fyrrekogle (da) c
• Dutch: pijnappel (nl) m, denneappel (nl) m
• Estonian: männikäbi (et)
• Finnish: männynkäpy (fi)
• French: pomme de pin (fr) f
• Georgian: ფიჭვის გირჩი (ka) (p'ičvis girč'i)
• German: Kiefernzapfen (de) m
• Greek: κουκουνάρα (el) (koukounára) f, κουκουνάρι (el) (koukounári) n

• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: fenyőtoboz (hu)
• Italian: pigna (it) f, pina (it) f
• Jèrriais: pomme dé sapîn f
• Malay: kon pain (ms), kon pinus (ms)
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: pinha (pt) f
• Russian: шишка (ru) (šíška) f
• Spanish: piña (es) f, estróbilo (es) m, cono (es) m
• Swahili: sunobari (sw)
• Swedish: tallkotte (sv) c
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: శంఖు ఆకారం (te) (SaMkhu AkaaraM)
• Turkish: çam kozalağı (tr)

See also

• strobilus