cembra

plural cembras

1. The Swiss pine, Pinus cembra.

   Among the cembra trees in the Engadine the snow may be sprinkled with the nuts out of the cones.

   1924, Katharine Symonds Furse, Ski-running

   2 more examples

   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.

   1884, John Addington Symonds, New Italian sketches

   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.)

   1881, Alexander Leslie, The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II

   Synonyms: Swiss stone pine, arolla pine