English
Etymology
From pine + cone.
Pronunciation
Noun
pinecone (plural pinecones)
- A conical seed-bearing structure produced on a pine tree.
- (loosely) The seed-bearing structure of any conifer, such as fir, spruce, cedar, etc.
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Translations
seed-bearing structure of a pine tree
- Albanian: bloçkë (sq) f
- Arabic: كُوز الصَنَوْبَر (kūz aṣ-ṣanawbar)
- Armenian: կոն (hy) (kon), սոճու կոն (soču kon)
- Basque: pinaburu
- Bulgarian: шиша́рка f (šišárka)
- Catalan: pinya (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 松球 (zh) (sōngqiú), 松果 (zh) (sōngguǒ), 松塔 (zh) (sōngtǎ),
- Cornish: aval saben m
- Cree: ᐘᐢᑵᑐᕀ (waskwetoy)
- Danish: fyrrekogle (da) c
- Dutch: pijnappel (nl) m, dennenappel (nl) m
- Esperanto: strobilo
- Estonian: männikäbi (et)
- Faroese: furukongul m
- Finnish: männynkäpy (fi)
- French: pomme de pin (fr) f, babet (fr) m (Saint-Étienne), aval-pin (Brittany), barolin (fr) (Switzerland), cocotte (fr) f (Canade, Hautes-Vosges), cône (fr) m, cône de pin (fr) m, coucarello, pigne (fr) f (Gascogne), pignon (fr) (Provence), pive (fr) f (Switzerland), strobile de pin, carotte de pin f (Belgium)
- Galician: piña (gl) f, caroca (gl) f
- Georgian: ფიჭვის გირჩი (pič̣vis girči)
- German: Kiefernzapfen (de) m
- Greek: κουκουνάρα (el) f (koukounára), κουκουνάρι (el) n (koukounári)
- Ancient Greek: κῶνος m (kônos)
- Hebrew: אצטרובל (he) m (etztrubal)
- Hindi: कोणधारी कोण (koṇdhārī koṇ)
- Hungarian: fenyőtoboz (hu)
- Ingrian: petäjänkärkkä
- Irish: caor phéine f, buaircín giúise m, coirceog giúise f
- Italian: pigna (it) f, pina f
- Japanese: 松笠 (ja) (まつかさ, matsukasa)
- Korean: 솔방울 (ko) (solbang'ul)
- Latvian: čiekurs m
- Lithuanian: kankorėžis m
- Macedonian: шишарка f (šišarka)
- Malay: kon pain, kon pinus
- Mari:
- Eastern Mari: пӱнчӧ пӱгыльмӧ (pünčö pügyĺmö)
- Middle English: pynote
- Mi'kmaq: wisqasaw anim
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: боргоцой (mn) (borgocoj)
- Mongolian script: ᠪᠣᠷᠭᠤᠴᠠᠢ (borɣučai)
- Nahuatl:
- Classical Nahuatl: ocōcentli
- Norman: pomme dé sapîn f (Jersey)
- Ojibwe: wazhashkwedow
- Persian: مخروط کاج (maxrut-e kâj), چلغوزه (fa) (čelġuze), گلوز (gallowz, gellowz)
- Polish: szyszka sosny f
- Portuguese: pinha (pt) f
- Romanian: con de pin
- Russian: ши́шка (ru) f (šíška)
- Scottish Gaelic: duirc-ghiuthais f, durcan-giuthais m
- Spanish: piña (es) f, estróbilo (es) m, cono (es) m
- Swahili: sunobari
- Swedish: tallkotte (sv) c
- Tamil: please add this translation if you can
- Telugu: శంఖు ఆకారం (te) (śaṅkhu ākāraṁ)
- Turkish: çam kozalağı
- Udmurt: пужым кускыли (pužym kuskyľi), пужым ӵыжин (pužym čyžin)
- Vietnamese: nón thông
- Welsh: mochyn coed m
- Yiddish: שישקע f (shishke)
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Verb
pinecone (third-person singular simple present pinecones, present participle pineconing or pineconeing, simple past and past participle pineconed)
- (of a fish) To become bloated in a way that causes the fish's scales to flare out and resemble a pinecone.
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