Swiss pine

Swiss pine
noun
large five-needled European pine; yields cembra nuts and a resinous exudate
Hypernyms: ↑pine, ↑pine tree, ↑true pine
Part Meronyms: ↑cembra nut, ↑cedar nut

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noun also swiss stone pine
Usage: usually capitalized 1st S
: a tall Eurasian pine (Pinus cembra) having dark green leaves in bundles of five, short spreading branches, and cones usually less than four inches in length and yielding cedar nuts and a resinous exudate

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