Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bearing cones, as the pine, fir, and cypress; specifically, belonging or relating to the order Coniferæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Bearing cones, as the pine and cypress.
- adjective Pertaining to the order Coniferae, of which the pine tree is the type.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Bearing cones, as the
pine and cypress. - adjective Of, or pertaining to, a
conifer .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or part of trees or shrubs bearing cones and evergreen leaves
Etymologies
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Examples
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Although they are classified as coniferous forests, it is important to understand that these forests also include deciduous broad-leaved trees that may form a lower canopy through which the conifers emerge.
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Older Palaeozoic rocks are represented by greenish grey slates from the sides of the Beardmore glacier and by radiolarian cherts; but the most widespread of the sedimentary rocks occurring in vast beds in the mountain faces is that named by Ferrar the Beacon sandstones, which in the far south Shackleton found to be banded with seams of shale and coal amongst which a fossil occurred which has been identified as coniferous wood and suggests that the place of the formation is Lower Carboniferous or perhaps Upper Devonian.
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"coniferous," and such words, remarkably well, considering they did not care two straws about them.
How to Do It Edward Everett Hale 1865
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† Some Bible translations use the term cypress or cedar wood, a softwood from a coniferous tree.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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† Some Bible translations use the term cypress or cedar wood, a softwood from a coniferous tree.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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Most of the existing wetlands are freshwater, coniferous scrub/shrub wetlands, with small palustrine forested wetland complexes as well as Atlantic White Cedar wetland complexes.
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Most of the existing wetlands are freshwater, coniferous scrub/shrub wetlands, with small palustrine forested wetland complexes as well as Atlantic White Cedar wetland complexes.
Beachwood Borough Master Plan, Part IV « Beachwood Historical Alliance 2009
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The facades are ventilated and finished with coniferous wood such as Flanders pine.
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† Some Bible translations use the term cypress or cedar wood, a softwood from a coniferous tree.
Modern Science in the Bible Ben Hobrink 2011
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Insects like Asian long-horned beetles and coniferous nematodes, says the website for Cherry's Industrial Equipment Corp., of Elk Grove, Ill., which sells plastic pallets.
Loaded Issue: Pallet Makers Sling Mud Over Who's Greenest Jennifer Levitz 2011
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