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Definition of Nut pine
1. Noun. Any of several pinons bearing edible nutlike seeds.
Generic synonyms: Pinon, Pinyon
Specialized synonyms: Mexican Nut Pine, Pinon Pine, Pinus Cembroides, Pinus Edulis, Rocky Mountain Pinon, Pinus Monophylla, Single-leaf, Single-leaf Pine, Single-leaf Pinyon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nut Pine
Literary usage of Nut pine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1880)
"... of her surface appear conspicuous ; and, of all trees that prow on her soil,
the most noteworthy is the nut-pine, for its utility on account ..."
2. The Tree Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Trees of North America by Julia Ellen Rogers (1905)
"The nut pine (P. cembroides, Zucc.), a bushy tree of the canon sides in Arizona
... The one-leaved nut pine (T. monophylla, Torr.) is small and irregular, ..."
3. Report of the Secretary for Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1876)
"nut pine.—Sierra Nevada Mountains. This species is almost limited to the eastern
slope of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, at altitudes of 2000 to 6000 feet. ..."
4. Handbook of West-American Cone-bearers by John Gill Lemmon (1900)
"... widely opening at maturity, loosely holding the large, delicious seeds. No.
H Nevada nut pine .... P. monophylla, Torr. and Frem, Small, ..."
5. The Silva of California by Willis Linn Jepson (1910)
"of the nut pine as they turned northwesterly, reached again the waters of the
Carson River and ascended the Sierra Nevada mountains. ..."
6. Muhlenbergia: A Journal of Botany edited by Amos Arthur Heller, Patrick Beveridge Kennedy (1909)
"... PINK BY AA HELLER On the 24th day of January, 1844, Captain JC Fremont,
the "Pathfinder," came upon Pinus monophylla, the nut pine, for the first time. ..."
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