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Definition of Pinus cembra
1. Noun. Large five-needled European pine; yields cembra nuts and a resinous exudate.
Generic synonyms: Pine, Pine Tree, True Pine
Terms within: Cedar Nut, Cembra Nut
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pinus Cembra
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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