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cembra nut

cembra nut

9.9
An edible seed from the Swiss pine with a mild taste often eaten raw or roasted
  • noun
translation icon : nuez de cembra
  • The delicious cembra nut is often eaten raw or roasted in Alpine regions.

Examples

  • She collected a handful of cembra nuts beneath the branches of a Swiss pine.

  • Oil extracted from the cembra nut is sometimes used in traditional recipes.

  • I love eating cembra nuts during the winter.

  • The cembra nut is known for its rich flavor.

  • The delicious cembra nut is often eaten raw or roasted in Alpine regions.

  • She collected a handful of cembra nuts beneath the branches of a Swiss pine.

  • The cembra nut is known for its rich flavor and is a popular snack in many countries.

Synonyms

pine nut
vscembra nut
  • US
8 2.3

An edible seed from some pine trees used in cooking and baking

is the seed specifically of the Swiss pine and valued for mild flavor
cedar nut
vscembra nut
4.6

An edible seed from some pine trees like Swiss pine used in cooking or as a snack

is the seed of that same tree and is prized for mild taste and nutrition

Surface Forms

cembra nut singular
cembra nuts plural

Morphology

cembra + nut

The noun phrase is directly compositional: 'cembra' names a species (Pinus cembra) and 'nut' denotes the edible seed, so a learner who knows both constituents will readily infer 'the nut of the cembra tree'. Although 'cembra' is a rare/specialist species name not in many learners' vocabularies, the formation follows a transparent modifier+noun pattern rather than an idiomatic shift.

Etymology

Cembra nut is the name for the small edible 'seed' of the Swiss pine tree; people in mountain areas called the tree a cembra and would gather the oily nuts to eat or press for oil, so the name now means that tasty pine seed.