coniferous
IPA: kʌnˈɪfɝʌs
adjective
- Bearing cones, as the pine and cypress.
- Of, or pertaining to, a conifer.
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Examples of "coniferous" in Sentences
- The facades are ventilated and finished with coniferous wood such as Flanders pine.
- † Some Bible translations use the term cypress or cedar wood, a softwood from a coniferous tree.
- "coniferous," and such words, remarkably well, considering they did not care two straws about them.
- Insects like Asian long-horned beetles and coniferous nematodes, says the website for Cherry's Industrial Equipment Corp., of Elk Grove, Ill., which sells plastic pallets.
- Most of the existing wetlands are freshwater, coniferous scrub/shrub wetlands, with small palustrine forested wetland complexes as well as Atlantic White Cedar wetland complexes.
- Although they are classified as coniferous forests, it is important to understand that these forests also include deciduous broad-leaved trees that may form a lower canopy through which the conifers emerge.
- Older Palaeozoic rocks are represented by greenish grey slates from the sides of the Beardmore glacier and by radiolarian cherts; but the most widespread of the sedimentary rocks occurring in vast beds in the mountain faces is that named by Ferrar the Beacon sandstones, which in the far south Shackleton found to be banded with seams of shale and coal amongst which a fossil occurred which has been identified as coniferous wood and suggests that the place of the formation is Lower Carboniferous or perhaps Upper Devonian.
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