Conifer meaning

kŏn'ə-fər, kō'nə-
Any of various mostly needle-leaved or scale-leaved, chiefly evergreen, cone-bearing gymnospermous trees or shrubs of the order Coniferales, such as pines, spruces, and firs.
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Any of a class (Pinatae) of cone-bearing, gymnospermous trees and shrubs, mostly evergreens, including the pine, spruce, fir, cedar, yew, and cypress.
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(botany) A plant belonging to the conifers; a cone-bearing seed plant with vascular tissue, usually a tree.
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Any of various gymnosperms that bear their reproductive structures in cones and belong to the phylum Coniferophyta. Conifers evolved around 300 million years ago and, as a group, show many adaptations to drier and cooler environments. They are usually evergreen and often have drought-resistant leaves that are needle-shaped or scalelike. They depend on the wind to blow pollen produced by male cones to female cones, where fertilization takes place and seeds develop. Conifers are widely distributed, but conifer species dominate the northern forest biome known as the taiga. There are some 550 species of conifers, including the pines, firs, spruces, hemlocks, cypresses, junipers, yews, and redwoods.
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Origin of conifer

  • Latin cōnifer cone-bearing cōnus cone (from Greek kōnos kō- in Indo-European roots) -fer -fer
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Latin conifer (bearing cones), compound of conus (cone) and ferre (to bear)
    From Wiktionary

Conifer Sentence Examples

  • A mixed forest of deciduous and conifer trees formed a dense covering of mottled greens.

  • No conifer grows in Denmark except under careful cultivation, which, however, is largely practised in Jutland.

  • in diameter; the wood, however, was dense, and had the structure of that of an Araucarian Conifer; specimens of the wood have accordingly been commonly referred to the genus Araucarioxylon, and at one time the idea prevailed that wood of this type indicated actual affinity with Araucarieae.

  • Coniferales: " Report of the Conifer Conference " (1891) Journ.

  • The first species of the genus, Nematophycus Logani, was discovered by Dawson in 1856 in the Lower and Middle Devonian of Canada, and was described by him as a Conifer under the name of Prototaxites.

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