Swiss Stone Pine (Noun)
Meaning
Large five-needled European pine; yields cembra nuts and a resinous exudate.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The swiss stone pine tree towered above the mountain meadow, its tall, straight trunk covered in rusty red bark.
- Hikers to the mountain region always keep an eye out for the prized swiss stone pine trees.
- This forest was predominantly populated with larch, arolla, and swiss stone pine, along with scattered wild flowers.
- Their shelter from the impending snowstorm was built beside an enormous, twisted swiss stone pine, gnarled from age and high altitude winds.
- Old-timers swear by the ability of the resin of swiss stone pine trees to preserve its properties of tar or rosin through to make old pipes pliable and thus avoid frost burst in old frozen gutters and wooden windows in Siberian homes.