Meanings of pine-cone in English

It derives its scientific name from its shape, which resembles a pine-cone.

Why the pine-cone was chosen for this purpose it is difficult to form a conjecture.

It derives its scientific name from its shape, which, as I have said, resembles a pine-cone.

Shaped like a pine-cone.

It is, when full grown, about two feet in height, and shaped like a loosely constructed pine-cone set up on end.

The shape of the nest, like a pine-cone, its color and texture, and the lining, which showed through, made him smile.

The bird-people looked at the sleeper in wonder, but the Pine squirrel climbed the great spruce-tree with a pine-cone in his mouth.

The willow-and-pine-cone circle from three years ago clings to the shed door, bouncing to the ground when a strong wind takes it.

They were beautiful and very tame, and one was nibbling at what I concluded must have been a seed from a pine-cone.

And soon the fire was overhung with much meat, being smoked with a pine-cone smudge in preparation for the journey into the unknown.

A game of pine-cone soccer was lifting long, vigorous tunnels of dust toward the moon, and elsewhere the bacchanalia was proceeding with unabated fervor.

The natural result of this was that the pine-cone, kept by Olympias as a private barometer, was anxiously consulted on the least appearance of clouds.

It was gilded or gold-plated and its ends were chased pine-cones.

It was woeful weather for Catherine to go hunting for pine-cones.

Further, pine-cones were regarded as symbols or rather instruments of fertility.

He gathered the huge pine-cones from the branches of the tree.