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Definition of Coniferous
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or part of trees or shrubs bearing cones and evergreen leaves.
Definition of Coniferous
1. a. Bearing cones, as the pine and cypress.
Definition of Coniferous
1. Adjective. Bearing cones, as the pine and cypress. ¹
2. Adjective. Of, or pertaining to, a conifer. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Coniferous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coniferous
Literary usage of Coniferous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Phytopathology by American Phytopathological Society (1917)
"JAMES R. WEIR Since the appearance of number I of this series,1 additional
collections of fungi growing on the wood of both coniferous and deciduous trees ..."
2. Fossil Plants: A Text-book for Students of Botany and Geology by Albert Charles Seward (1898)
"8 we have a block of flint partially enclosing a piece of coniferous wood in
which the internal structure has been clearly preserved in silica. ..."
3. Wood and Other Organic Structural Materials by Charles Henry Snow (1917)
"Coniferous woods are comparatively light in weight and the arrangements of the
... Coniferous woods are preferred where the demand is for bulk and strength ..."
4. History of the Lumber Industry of America by James Elliott Defebaugh (1906)
"The coniferous areas proper will, to a considerable extent, remain for an indefinite
time devoted to timber growth, but the hardwood areas already have been ..."
5. The Forester =: Or, A Practical Treatise on the Planting, Rearing, and by James Brown (1882)
"Coniferous trees being chiefly natives of the hilly and mountainous regions of
the globe, where the air is always found of a purer and more rarefied nature ..."
6. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"Coniferous and broad-leaved forests, ii. The Broad-Leaved Summer-Forest. ...
The Pacific forests are coniferous. The Pacific Coast forest. ..."
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