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Coniferous   /kənˈɪfərəs/   Listen
Coniferous

adjective
1.
Of or relating to or part of trees or shrubs bearing cones and evergreen leaves.  Synonym: cone-bearing.



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"Coniferous" Quotes from Famous Books



... coniferous trees, similar to the living firs, pines, larches, &c., gave rise for the most part to the mineral oils. The class of living coniferae is well known for the various oils which it furnishes naturally, and ...
— The Story of a Piece of Coal - What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes • Edward A. Martin

... are commonly flat at top, varying in height from 85 to 100 feet above the level of the surrounding waters. They are covered with thick forests, in which coniferous plants predominate. South of Itasca Lake, they form a semicircular region with a boggy bottom, extending to the south-west a distance of several miles; thence these Hauteurs des Terres ascend to the north-west and north; and then, stretching to the ...
— Minnesota and Dacotah • C.C. Andrews

... rustle of the withered grasses at my feet. Each was expressing itself in its own way—singing its own song, and making its own peculiar gestures—manifesting a richness of variety to be found in no other forest I have yet seen. The coniferous woods of Canada and the Carolinas and Florida, are made up of trees that resemble one another about as nearly as blades of grass, and grow close together in much the same way. Coniferous trees, in general, seldom possess individual character, such as is manifest among Oaks and ...
— English Prose - A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice • Frederick William Roe (edit. and select.)

... cannot be purchased, it is necessary to collect. Since no species of coniferous trees bear abundant crops of seed each year and often several seasons will elapse between good crops, it is necessary to gather sufficient seed when the supply is abundant to provide for succeeding years when the crop is apt to ...
— Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest • Edward Tyson Allen

... low hills west of Urals; vast coniferous forest and tundra in Siberia; uplands and mountains ...
— The 1997 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... suis descripta, sacrorum opera ingeniorum in speciem et cultum parietum comparantur. With this passage may be compared Lucian's tract: [Greek: Eros apaideuton kai polla biblia onoumenon.] My friend Mr F. Darwin in informs me that the Latin citrus, or Greek [Greek: kedros], is the coniferous tree called Thuia articulata Callitris quadrivalvis. See Helm, Kulturpflanzen, Berl. 1894. Engl. ...
— The Care of Books • John Willis Clark



Words linked to "Coniferous" :   cone-bearing, evergreen, conifer



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