sea-pinen.
1. See pine n.2 2.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > pines and allies > cluster pine
pinaster1562
sea-pine1753
Mediterranean pine1760
maritime pine1850
cluster-pine1857
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. at Pine 5. The wild sea-pine... 6. The Idæan sea-pine.
1845 R. Browning Eng. in Italy in Bells & Pomegranates No. VII: Dramatic Romances & Lyrics 191 The flat sea-pine crouches.
1865 Daily Tel. 26 Oct. 4/4 He drained the soil,..and planted bent and the sea-pine over sixteen hundred acres of windy sand.
1881 R. L. Stevenson Ordered South in Virginibus Puerisque The troubled, busy-looking groups of sea-pines.
2. A dark-coloured seaweed. ? Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > algae > seaweed > [noun] > of unspecified or various types
sea-grass1591
rockweed1599
sea-tree1601
zoster1601
float-ore1602
vraic1610
sea-wrack1611
spangle-wort1681
trunk-weed1730
turtle-grass1736
sea-pine1762
agar-agar1769
greenweed1820
bull-kelpc1929
agarophyte1944
1762 W. Hudson Flora Anglica 470 Fucus..incurvus.., black Fucus, or Sea Pine.
1777 S. Robson Brit. Flora 310 Fucus incurvus... Black Wrack. Sea Pine.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
<
n.1753