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Definition of Coniferales
1. Noun. Profusely branching and chiefly evergreen trees and some shrubs having narrow or needlelike leaves.
Generic synonyms: Plant Order
Group relationships: Class Coniferopsida, Coniferophyta, Coniferophytina, Coniferopsida, Subdivision Coniferophytina
Member holonyms: Family Pinaceae, Pinaceae, Pine Family, Cupressaceae, Cypress Family, Family Cupressaceae, Araucaria Family, Araucariaceae, Family Araucariaceae, Cephalotaxaceae, Family Cephalotaxaceae, Plum-yew Family, Family Phyllocladaceae, Phyllocladaceae, Family Podocarpaceae, Podocarpaceae, Podocarpus Family, Family Sciadopityaceae, Sciadopityaceae, Family Taxaceae, Taxaceae, Yew Family
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coniferales
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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