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n. - An area planted with a type of conifer.

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  • A glen may be planted with pines and firs, so as to form it into a kind of pinetum; and an open space among trees may be turned into a rose-garden or rosery.
  • Blenkinsop had joined the group in the shadow of the pinetum.
  • With a bow to Portia and a nod to the men, he headed off toward the pinetum.
  • He steered her toward the pinetum, away from the summerhouse; head high, she glided along, and said not a word.
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