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mugo|ˈmuːgəʊ|
Also mugho(s).
[a. Fr. mugho, It. mugo mountain pine.]
In full, mugo pine. The European mountain pine, Pinus mugo (or P. montana), a large shrub, or one of its many varieties, ranging from dwarf forms to small trees.
c1756P. Collinson in L. W. Dillwyn Hortus Collinsonianus (1843) 40 Mr. P. Miller received seeds of the Cembro and Mugos Pines from the mountains of Valencia in Spain, Sept. 12, 1753. 1822J. M. Good Study of Med. I. 315 The Hungarian balsam, or distilled oil of that variety of the pinus sylvestris which has been called Mughos. 1861R. Bentley Man. Bot. 659 P[inus] Pumilio, the Mugho or Mountain Pine, yields by spontaneous exudation an oleo-resin called Hungarian balsam. 1951H. S. Conard tr. Kerner's Background Plant Ecol. xxiii. 191 The formation of the Rusty Sedge generally occurs in the calcareous Alps as islands in the dark green mugho pine forest. 1966H. J. Welch Dwarf Conifers v. 266 The Mountain Pine (Mugo is a local name) is a very variable species with a distribution in nature throughout Europe from the Pyrenees to the Balkans. 1967N. T. Mirou Genus Pinus ii. 98 It [sc. Pinus montana] grows there [sc. in the Carpathians] in a shrub form and is known as variety mughus, or Mugo pine. 1969T. H. Everett Living Trees of World 52/1 The Swiss mountain pine (P. mugo) is best known to many Americans in its dwarf variety, the mugho pine (P. m. mughus). |