Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Bearing cones, as the pine, fir, and cypress; specifically, belonging or relating to the order Coniferæ.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Bearing cones, as the pine and cypress.
- adj. Pertaining to the order Coniferae, of which the pine tree is the type.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of or relating to or part of trees or shrubs bearing cones and evergreen leaves
Etymologies
- Latin. Surface analysis is cone + -iferous (“bearing”), or conifer + -ous (“pertaining to”), as reflected in the meanings. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“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.”
“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.”
“coniferous," and such words, remarkably well, considering they did not care two straws about them.”
“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.”
“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.”
The Wall Street Journal: Loaded Issue: Pallet Makers Sling Mud Over Who's Greenest
“† Some Bible translations use the term cypress or cedar wood, a softwood from a coniferous tree.”
“The facades are ventilated and finished with coniferous wood such as Flanders pine.”
“An excellent cover scent to mask odors that emanate from your hunting clothes can be made by boiling a few handfuls of leaves, bark, and coniferous needles gathered from your hunting region in a gallon of water.”
“In my parts plenty of deer hunters hunt on the ground, stalking their whitetails, usually still hunting around deer bedding areas in heavy coniferous swamps.”
Which is better to use when deer hunting with a 12 guage shotgun, No 4 buckshot or 00 buckshot?
“There was nothing here when I came, just taiga," he said, referring to the swampy coniferous forest that covers the area.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘coniferous’.
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Test Prep or Just for fun
Building a list for standardized test prep or just for learning some new words! Please add any words that you feel are important for the SAT/GRE/GMAT etc...
throng, morass, parley, facile, kismet, strife, jetsam, carrion, annex, harbinger, vestige, surreptitious and 575 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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phrontistery - c
from phrontistery.info
caballine, cabas, cable, caboched, cabochon, caboose, cabotage, cabré, cabrie, cabriole, cabriolet, cacaesthesia and 1298 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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ChortleGiggleSnort
Significant Words- Guiding you on your path to Snazzibility
flimsy, feeble, ranting, ramble, narky, snazzy, yoghurt, bulbous, pustule, globulous, geranium, megalomaniac and 521 more...
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words that make me happy inside
amanuensis, inamorata, armigerous, yurt, fugacious, ephemeral, gambit, defenestration, orotund, toper, teuchter, apostasy and 90 more...
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Bearing and Carrying
Words with the -fer suffix ("that which carries") or the -ferous suffix ("bearing," "producing," or "yielding").
aligerous, aluminiferous, antenniferous, argentiferous, armigerous, arundiferous, auriferous, bacciferous, balaniferous, barbigerous, belliferous, brachiferous and 187 more...
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essigurken's Words
transubstantiation, pungent, omnipotent, craven, 'tis, saucy, entwine, inextricably, consummation, conglomeration, sepulchre, addendum and 264 more...
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merfee's Words
supple, dichotomy, relish, rhapsody, pneumonoultramicr..., embrace, ishmael, ebullient, recalcitrant, elegy, char, lugubrious and 522 more...
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Biomes
From 9th grade bio!
tundra, taiga, forest, coniferous, broadleaf, savannah, steppe, prairie, heath, temperate, woodland, scrubland and 7 more...
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kmohnkern's Words
synecdoche, metonymy, crotch, sniffle, schism, bucolic, neologism, embiggen, coniferous, schadenfreude, akimbo, fitful and 27 more...
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10th Grade Unit 4 (FER)
vociferous, reference, proliferous, inference, fertile, deference, coniferous, circumference
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