Crossword-Solution: PINONS 6 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

There are all sorts higher up on the slopes,--long-leaved yellow pines, thimble cones, tamarack, silver fir, and Douglas spruce; but in the canyon there is only a group of the low-headed, gray nut pines which the earliest inhabitants of that country called pinons.

Just look at the pinons growing up the sides like tufts, along with the funny looking clumps of stunted cedars.

There are four or five pinons that will live, but they do not grow fast enough to make it worth while to raise them in Michigan.

The pinons afforded their farinaceous cones, the agave yielded its esculent roots, and the prairie-turnip grew upon the borders of the runlet.

You have behaved well, _yegua-- yeguita_!" she adds, patting the mare upon the neck; "you shall have the promised pinons--a whole _cuartilla_ of them." Once more stepping to the front, she strikes off among the trees, along a path which still inclines downward, though now in gentler slope.