Definition of Pinus cembra

1. Noun. Large five-needled European pine; yields cembra nuts and a resinous exudate.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinus Cembra

Pinsk
Pinter
Pinteresque
Pinterian
Pinterish
Pinto
Pintoes
Pintos
Pintupi
Pintupis
Pinus albicaulis
Pinus aristata
Pinus attenuata
Pinus banksiana
Pinus californiarum
Pinus cembra
Pinus cembroides
Pinus contorta
Pinus contorta murrayana
Pinus densiflora
Pinus echinata
Pinus edulis
Pinus flexilis
Pinus glabra
Pinus jeffreyi
Pinus longaeva
Pinus monophylla
Pinus monticola
Pinus mugo
Pinus muricata

Literary usage of Pinus cembra

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society by Horticultural Society of London (1846)
"... while those of pinus cembra have eight, and those of Pinus Cembroides six or seven scales each ; the two latter however much resemble each other in ..."

2. The Pinetum: Being a Synopsis of All the Coniferous Plants at Present Known by George Gordon, Robert Glendinning (1858)
"pinus cembra Rossica, Hort. Leaves, in fives, much shorter, more dense and brighter green. ... Seeds, large, and eatable in Siberia. pinus cembra ..."

3. A Manual of Dangerous Insects Likely to be Introduced in the United States by United States Bureau of Entomology (1918)
"Hosts: Laria, Abies, Siberian stone pine (pinus cembra L.). ... a gall louse; Russia; attacks pinus cembra and Picea in alternating r generations. ..."

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