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pine needle

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

An adult leaf of an adult pine tree.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Across languages

Translations

27 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bashkir: ылыҫ (ılıś) — leaf of a pine tree
  • Catalan: pinassa — leaf of a pine tree
  • Chinese Mandarin: 松針 /松针 (sōngzhēn) — leaf of a pine tree
  • Esperanto: pinpinglo — leaf of a pine tree
  • Faroese: furunál — leaf of a pine tree
  • Finnish: männynneulanen — leaf of a pine tree
  • Galician: lesta — leaf of a pine tree
  • Galician: arume — leaf of a pine tree
  • Galician: frouma — leaf of a pine tree
  • Galician: faísca — leaf of a pine tree
  • German: Kiefernnadel — leaf of a pine tree
  • Hungarian: tűlevél — leaf of a pine tree
  • Irish: spíonlach giúise — leaf of a pine tree
  • Italian: ago di pino — leaf of a pine tree
  • Japanese: 松葉 (matsuba) — leaf of a pine tree
  • Korean: 솔잎 (sollip) — leaf of a pine tree
  • Korean: 송엽 (song'yeop) — leaf of a pine tree
  • Navajo: ił — leaf of a pine tree
  • Polish: igła sosnowa — leaf of a pine tree
  • Portuguese: caruma — leaf of a pine tree
  • Russian: хво́я (xvója) — leaf of a pine tree
  • Russian: хвои́нка (xvoínka) — leaf of a pine tree
  • Spanish: pinocha — leaf of a pine tree
  • Spanish: pinaza — leaf of a pine tree
  • Spanish: aljuma — leaf of a pine tree
  • Swedish: tallbarr — leaf of a pine tree
  • Welsh: nodwydd pinwydden — leaf of a pine tree