Definition of Coniferales

1. Noun. Profusely branching and chiefly evergreen trees and some shrubs having narrow or needlelike leaves.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Coniferales

Congregational Church
Congregational church
Congregational churches
Congregationalism
Congregationalist
Congregationalists
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Congress of Racial Equality
Congressional Medal of Honor
Congressional Record
Congrevean
Congrevian
Congridae
Conidiobolus
Coniferales (current term)
Coniferophyta
Coniferophytina
Coniferopsida
Conilurus
Coniogramme
Coniogramme japonica
Conium maculatum
Conleth
Conley
Conlon
Conn's syndrome
Conn.
Connacht
Connacht Irish

Literary usage of Coniferales

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"(6) Coniferales General character. —This is the large group of living gymnosperms, comprising approximately 350 recognized species, included in forty genera ..."

2. Morphology of Spermatophytes by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1901)
"Coniferales While Cycads are tropical forms, Conifers belong as distinctly to temperate regions, forming vast forest areas, especially in the northern ..."

3. A Manual of the North American Gymnosperms: Exclusive of the Cycadales But by David Pearce Penhallow (1907)
"... AND Coniferales A. Resin passages and fusiform rays present. I. Fusiform rays narrow, the terminals chiefly long and abruptly linear; the cells rather ..."

4. Morphology of Spermatophytes by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1901)
"Coniferales While Cycads are tropical forms, Conifers belong as distinctly to temperate regions, forming vast forest areas, especially in the northern ..."

5. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1907)
"... feature in that the pollen grain does not reach the micropyle of the ovule as in the other Coniferales and all other known Gymnosperms living or fossil; ..."

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