pino

Half of a conifer pair. Pino is the pine; abio at rank 2,712, eighty ranks earlier in this same chapter, is the fir. Esperanto keeps them apart the way a forester would and the way English mostly does not: a pine has long needles in bundles of two or three and cones that hang down, a fir has short flat needles set singly and cones that stand up. If you are picking a Christmas tree in Esperanto you want abio, and kristnaska arbo covers you when you are not sure. Pinglo is the needle, pinglarbo the needle-tree, and pinglarbaro a coniferous forest.

The wood, not just the tree. As with English, the bare root does duty for the timber: tablo el pino is a pine table. That puts it beside kverko at 2,012 for oak and ligno at 719 for wood in general. Pinglo gets you the needle and pinglobalo or strobilo the cone, though most speakers just say pinkono.

And it is the tree this chapter sits under. The picnic in La pikniko happens in exactly the sort of place pino names, because a pine wood is the one bit of forest with no undergrowth in it: the needles kill everything at ground level, so there is a floor to put a blanket on. That is not a poetic observation, it is why picnics happen under pines and not under oaks.