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Definition of Arolla pine

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

Lexicographical Neighbors of Arolla Pine

Literary usage of Arolla pine

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

1. The Scenery of Switzerland and the Causes to which it is Due by John Lubbock (1896)
"The Arctic Willows, the Larch, and arolla pine, for instance, are Siberian species, and do not occur in Germany. Here and there also in the drift and the ..."

2. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner Von Marilaun (1902)
"The 5-leaved forms include about 35 species, of which the beautiful arolla pine (P. Cembra, fig. 410) is a European, and the Weymouth Pine (P. Strobus) a ..."

3. Diversions of a Naturalist by Edwin Ray Lankester (1915)
"... and are readily distinguished by having the leaves (needles) in bundles of five. The first of these is the arolla pine—Pinus Cembra (French, ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... and the sugar pine (P. Lambertiana) in California, P. Ayacahuite in Mexico, the arolla pine (P. Cembra) in Switzerland and Siberia, ..."

5. The Journal of Conchology by Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1874)
"I have myself collected at Arolla, at over 7000 feet, and above the /one of the noted arolla pine, ..."

6. Alpines and Bog-plants by Reginald John Farrer (1908)
"The great excitement at this part of the ascent is one's first sight of the Arolla Pine. About all waning, dying species, such as Saxifraga ..."

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