/pi noh"kee oh'/ , n.
the hero of Carlo Collodi's children's story, The Adventures of Pinocchio (1883), a wooden puppet who comes to life as a boy and whose nose grows longer whenever he tells a lie.
[ pin ( o ) PINE 1 + -occhio -uc ( u ) lu ( m ), L -i-culum; see -I-, -CULE 1 ]