Pinus vs Pignus - What's the difference?
pinus | pignus |
(botany) Any member of the genus Pinus ; a pine.
* 1839 , J. C. Loudon, The Gardener's Magazine (page 420)
* 1853 , George Greenwood, The tree-lifter (page 265)
As a proper noun pinus
is .As a noun pignus is
(legal|obsolete|ancient rome) a pledge or pawn.pinus
English
Noun
(es)- I have been invited to see the garden of Baron Zanoli, situated on the high road from Monza to Milan, in which I am told there are fine exotic trees and shrubs, and especially a rich collection of pinuses .
- As the generality of pinuses grow by nature into magnificent and gigantic forest-trees, they should, I think, be planted in our parks as well as in our flower-gardens, shrubberies, and lawns.