Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various mostly needle-leaved or scale-leaved, chiefly evergreen, cone-bearing gymnospermous trees or shrubs such as pines, spruces, and firs.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In botany, a plant producing cones; one of the Coniferæ.
Wiktionary
- n. A plant belonging to the conifers; a cone-bearing seed plant with vascular tissue, usually a tree.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A tree or shrub bearing cones; one of the order Coniferae, which includes the pine, cypress, and (according to some) the yew.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones
Etymologies
- From New Latin Cōniferae, family name, from Latin, feminine pl. of cōnifer, cone-bearing : cōnus, cone (from Greek kōnos; see kō- in Indo-European roots) + -fer, -fer.
Examples
“Originally classified as a conifer, scientists later argued that it was instead a lichen, various types of algae or a fungus.”
“We find a conifer which is almost pyramidal and just about the right height, and I set to work with my ax.”
Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories
“It is an easy-going, fast-growing deciduous conifer, also known as a Dawn Redwood.”
“The magnificent forests there were mixed conifer/hardwood woodlands of great beauty and big paper mills came in there in the 1950s and guaranteed my friends the landowners that there would be more board feet of timber on the then virgin forestlands at the end of their proposed 99 year lease for tree harvesting than at the commencement of the lease.”
“First, the conifer takes root where no one else will go think cold, short growing seasons and rocky, nutrient-poor soil.”
The Wall Street Journal: Christmas Trees and the Logic of Growth
“Spruce is the only conifer on the "will usually not eat" list.”
The Washington Post: Fewer and fewer plants are truly deer-resistent
“He highlighted the need to keep up pressure on the separate programme of replanting in ancient woodlands damaged by conifer introduction in the 19th century, as at the internationally important site of special scientific interest, Grass Wood near Grassington in the Yorkshire Dales.”
The Guardian: Campaigners not out of the woods in bid to save forests
“Besides, it would have been so much easier to make a cross -- the main symbol of Christ -- and put it up on the old hut wall than to cut down a conifer and drag that into their dwelling.”
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