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
- Most of the forests are coniferous.
- Two thirds of the area is coniferous forest.
- It sucks the sap from the cones of various coniferous trees.
- It is a plant of the chaparral and coastal coniferous forest.
- It grows in coniferous forests in gravelly and rocky substrates.
- The breeding habitat of the Pine Grosbeak is coniferous forests.
- It occurs in coniferous and deciduous forests throughout the world.
- Wollemia is a genus of coniferous tree in the family Araucariaceae.
- Pines are coniferous trees of the genus Pinus, in the family Pinaceae.
- The whole of the island is covered with dense forests, mostly coniferous.