A pine cone is the woody scaled fruit of an evergreen. Collect a pine cone.
It opens in dry weather and closes in damp, which is a movement in dead wood. Some kinds of pine cone open only after a fire, which is how the tree gets bare ground.
1nounpine coneThe woody scaled fruit of an evergreen.
“A pine cone on the windowsill opens and closes with the weather.”
pine cone is a fruit.
pinecone comes from pine + cone.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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