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Meanings of stone pine in English

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Medium-sized two-needled pine of southern Europe having a spreading crown; widely cultivated for its sweet seeds that resemble almonds.

Usage of stone pine in English
1
The seeds of the Pinus pinea, or stone pine or umbrella pine.
The Irish Times
2
The place itself was just a shack opposite a stone pine.
Venus In Copper
3
It's nothing to look at and it hides fallen cones from his valuable stone pine.
The Irish Times
4
Pines.- Ihaveonly met with three varieties-thePinus maritima, Pinus laricio, and the stone pine.
Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879
5
They never saw a stone pine or a eucalyptus but they named and admired it; they never glimpsed Soracte but they exclaimed.
Twelve Stories and a Dream
6
The sub-species has its origins in the Mediterranean basin, and its cousin -the " stone pine" -also has its roots in Spain and Portugal.
The South African
7
For we were near enough now to see stone pines and chestnut-trees.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867 / A Magazin...
8
Lilly Wing lives on a street shaded and scented by stone pines.
Seize the night
9
She gathered the pine nuts from the stone pines near the river.
The Plains of Passage
10
Young hemlocks and stone pines glistened with rime ice like bodies emerging from water.
A Cavern of Black Ice
11
The great wood of stone pines on the Pisan Maremma was his favourite study.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
12
And there-justcaught between two stone pines-inthe dim blue distance rose the great dome.
Eleanor
13
She had even added some oily pine nuts from the cones of the stone pines.
The Plains of Passage
14
The snow, rolled to hard pellets by the wind, rattled like hailstones against the trunks of stone pines.
A Cavern of Black Ice
15
Fronting the shops and restaurants beyond the deep sidewalks, eighty-foot stone pines spread wings of branches across the street.
Fear nothing
16
The islands are thickly clothed with tamarisks and pollarded acacias and stone pines, and are reputed to be somewhat malarial.
With British Guns in Italy: A Tribute to Italian Achievement