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Definition of Conifer
1. Noun. Any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones.
Specialized synonyms: Pine, Pine Tree, True Pine, Larch, Larch Tree, Golden Larch, Pseudolarix Amabilis, Fir, Fir Tree, True Fir, Cedar, Cedar Tree, True Cedar, Spruce, Hemlock, Hemlock Tree, Douglas Fir, Cathaya, Cedar, Cedar Tree, Cypress, Cypress Tree, Athrotaxis Selaginoides, King William Pine, Dawn Redwood, Metasequoia, Metasequoia Glyptostrodoides, Arborvitae, Keteleeria, Wollemi Pine, Araucaria, Dammar Pine, Kauri Pine, Plum-yew, Celery Pine, Podocarp, Podocarpus Coriaceus, Yacca, Yacca Podocarp, Brown Pine, Podocarpus Elatus, Rockingham Podocarp, African Yellowwood, Cape Yellowwood, Podocarpus Elongatus, Podocarpus Totara, Totara, Dacrycarpus Dacrydioides, Kahikatea, New Zealand Dacryberry, New Zealand White Pine, Podocarpus Dacrydioides, Dacrydium Cupressinum, Imou Pine, Red Pine, Rimu, Dacrydium Colensoi, Tar-wood, Tarwood, Common Sickle Pine, Falcatifolium Falciforme, Falcatifolium Taxoides, Yellow-leaf Sickle Pine, Dacrydium Bidwilli, Halocarpus Bidwilli, New Zealand Mountain Pine, Tar-wood, Tarwood, Lagarostrobus Colensoi, Silver Pine, Westland Pine, Dacrydium Franklinii, Huon Pine, Lagarostrobus Franklinii, Nageia Nagi, Nagi, Black Pine, Miro, Podocarpus Ferruginea, Prumnopitys Ferruginea, Black Pine, Matai, Podocarpus Spicata, Prumnopitys Taxifolia, Plum-fruited Yew, Prumnopitys Andina, Prumnopitys Elegans, Prince Albert Yew, Prince Albert's Yew, Saxe-gothea Conspicua, Podocarpus Amara, Prumnopitys Amara, Sundacarpus Amara, Japanese Umbrella Pine, Sciadopitys Verticillata, Yew
Terms within: Cone, Strobile, Strobilus
Generic synonyms: Gymnospermous Tree
Derivative terms: Coniferous
Definition of Conifer
1. n. A tree or shrub bearing cones; one of the order Coniferae, which includes the pine, cypress, and (according to some) the yew.
Definition of Conifer
1. Noun. (botany) A plant belonging to the conifers; a cone-bearing seed plant with vascular tissue, usually a tree. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Conifer
1. an evergreen tree [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conifer
Literary usage of Conifer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biodiversity and the Management of the Madrean Archipelago: The Sky Islands edited by Leonard F. DeBano (1999)
"DISCUSSION Our results suggest that pre-settlement mixed- conifer forests in the
... The WMPI obtained for the mixed-conifer forests of the ..."
2. American Marten, Fisher, Lynx, and Wolverine: Survey Methods for Their Detection by William J. Zielinski, Thomas E. Kucera (1998)
"Tree Species Composition conifer stands provide greater concealment from predators,
... In Minnesota, hares used habitats with a conifer overstory ..."
3. Manual of Plant Diseases by Paul Sorauer, Gustav Lindau, Ludwig Reh (1922)
"BLIGHT OF conifer TOPS. In 1903 v. ... using numerous illustrations, described
a case of very extensive blighting of conifer tops in upper Bavaria. ..."
4. The Testimony of the Rocks: Or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two by Hugh Miller (1857)
"conifer OP THE LOWER OLD REI> SANDSTONE. Cromarty. (Mag. forty diameters.)
not in one series, but in two, ..."
5. On the Germination, Development, and Fructification of the Higher by Wilhelm Hofmeister, Frederick Currey (1862)
"Lastly, the nucleus of Taxus, which is far larger than that of any other indigenous
conifer, is quite like that of most ..."
6. The Forester: A Practical Treatise on British Forestry and Arboriculture for by John Nisbet (1905)
"Thinning of Evergreen conifer Plantations.—Although large masses of Pine, Spruce,
... Evergreen conifer plantations are often formed solely for ornament, ..."
7. The Broad-sclerophyll Vegetation of California: An Ecological Study of the by William Skinner Cooper (1922)
"One asterisk (*) indicates that the species is also of importance in the conifer
forest chaparral; two asterisks (*) that it is important in that and also ..."
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