What does cembra mean?
Cembra means The Swiss pine, Pinus cembra..
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/ˈsɛmbɹə/ · noun
The Swiss pine, Pinus cembra..
Among the cembra trees in the Engadine the snow may be sprinkled with the nuts out of the cones.
Then comes the descent, with its forests of larch and cembra, golden and dark green upon a ground of grey, and in front the serried shafts of the Bernina, and here and there a glimpse of emerald lake at turnings of the road.
It consists principally of pines: the cembra pine (Pinus Cembra, L.), valued for its seeds, enormous larches, the nearly awl-formed Siberian pine (Pinus sibirica, LEDEB.), the fir (Pinus obovata, TURCZ.), and scattered trees of the common pine (Pinus sylvestris, L.)
Use cembra when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Cembra means The Swiss pine, Pinus cembra..
Common synonyms include Swiss stone pine, arolla pine.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Among the cembra trees in the Engadine the snow may be sprinkled with the nuts out of the cones.
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