Meaning

1 senses

  1. To become bloated in a way that causes the fish's scales to flare out and resemble a pinecone.

Examples

9 sentences

  1. Crossbills love fir-cones and pinecones.

    ruКлесты очень любят еловые и сосновые шишки. — marafon

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  2. Crossbills really like fir-cones and pinecones.

    ruКлесты очень любят еловые и сосновые шишки. — marafon

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  3. We collected pinecones to use as kindling.

    ruМы собрали сосновые шишки, чтобы использовать их в качестве растопки. — marafon

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  4. There was a pile of pinecones under the tree.

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  5. I'm thinking of making a Christmas wreath out of these pinecones.

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Origin

From pine + cone.

From pine + cone.

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Forms

pinecones, pineconing, pineconed, pineconed
Base formpinecone · to pinecone
3rd person singularpinecones
Present participlepineconing
Past simplepineconed
Past participlepineconed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theypinecone
he, she, itpinecones

Past simpleLesson

all personspineconed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave pineconed
he, she, ithas pineconed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill pinecone

Word family

1 related words
Relatedstrobilus

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
pineB2pineappleB1pingpinkA2
pinecone — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto