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/ˈkänəfər/,/kō-/,
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conifers, plural;
  1. A tree that bears cones and evergreen needlelike or scalelike leaves. Conifers are of major importance as the source of softwood, and also supply resins and turpentine

  1. any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones
  2. (coniferous) of or relating to or part of trees or shrubs bearing cones and evergreen leaves
  3. The conifers, division Pinophyta, also known as division Coniferophyta or Coniferae, are one of 13 or 14 division level taxa within the Kingdom Plantae. Pinophytes are gymnosperms. ...
  4. A plant belonging to the conifers; a cone-bearing seed plant with vascular tissue, usually a tree
  5. (coniferous) Bearing cones, as the pine and cypress; Of, or pertaining to, a conifer
  6. (Coniferous) cone-bearing trees, such as pine, fir, and spruce.
  7. (Coniferous) A tree like the spruce which is cone bearing, used in making sulphate and sulphite pulp.
  8. (Coniferous) Various, mostly needled trees that produce cones, like Pine, Balsam, etc.
  9. Coniferous (or evergreen) trees, such as Larch, are ones who retain their leaves all year long. Their leaves are designed to withstand adverse weather conditions such as cold or drought. The opposite is a 'deciduous' tree.
  10. (conifers) Group of gymnosperms that reproduce by cones and have needle-like leaves (in general); includes the pines.
  11. (conifers) Needle-bearing trees that produce seeds in cones.
  12. (Conifers) (Pinophyta). Besides the giant Sequoiadendron and Sequoia already mentioned, the conifers also include the largest tree by circumference in the world, the Montezuma Cypress (Taxodium mucronatum). ...
  13. (Conifers) Plants that are the best example of the gymnosperms.
  14. (Conifers) Plants that predate true flowering plants in evolution; conifers lack true flowers and produce seperate male and female strobili or cones.  Some conifers, such as yews, have fruits enclosed in a fleshy aril.
  15. (conifers) Trees with needles and cones .
  16. (conifers) evergreens such as cedars, pines, firs, spruces, larches, junipers, and redwoods.
  17. A "conifer" can also be called an "evergreen" or "softwood" tree.  However, it is inaccurate to call all conifers "pines"!  There are only three native pine tree species in the U.P. ...
  18. A class of trees that are evergreen, have needle or scalelike foliage and conelike fruit; often called softwood. Examples include pine, hemlock, cedar and cypress.
  19. any tree that produces seeds in cones. See softwood.
  20. A tree or shrub, usually evergreen which bears its seeds in cones.
  21. Tree that is a gymnosperm, usually evergreen, with cones and needle-shaped or scale like leaves, producing wood known commercially as softwood.
  22. Member of a group of trees commonly called softwoods or gymnosperms. The word gymnosperm, from the Greek gymnos (naked) and sperma (seed), means "naked-seeded." This refers to the fact that conifer seeds are not contained in fruit tissue. ...
  23. Any of various predominately evergreen, cone-bearing trees and shrubs such as a pine, spruce, hemlock, fir, and juniper or yew.
  24. A plant belonging to the order Coniferales bearing cones and needle-like or scale-like leaves. Sometimes misleadingly referred to as a softwood.
  25. Most conifers are evergreen trees and shrubs that bear naked seeds in cones (a woody strobilus). Examples of modern-day conifers include pine, fir, and spruce trees. ...