Crossword clues for conifer
conifer
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Conifer \Co"ni*fer\, n. [L. conifer; conus cone + ferre to bear: cf. F. conif[`e]re.] (Bot.) A tree or shrub bearing cones; one of the order Coniferae, which includes the pine, cypress, and (according to some) the yew.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context botany English) A plant belonging to the conifers; a cone-bearing seed plant with vascular tissue, usually a tree.
WordNet
n. any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones [syn: coniferous tree]
Wikipedia
- Redirect Pinophyta
Conifer may refer to:
- Pinophyta (conifers), cone-bearing seed plants
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Conifer, Colorado, an unincorporated town in the United States
- Conifer High School
- Conifer, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community
- Conifer Grove, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand
- Taiga, a biome characterized by coniferous forests
- USCGC Conifer (WLB-301), a U.S. Coast Guard seagoing buoy tender
Usage examples of "conifer".
They were predominantly conifers mixed with a few small broadleaf trees.
The swamps were woodland ecosystems comprised of a more alien-looking mix of vegetation than that found in many science fiction stories: landscapes dominated by giant clubmosses, giant horsetails, conifers, seed ferns, and tree ferns.
Many of the land plants in the Permian Period such as conifers, sphenopsids, ferns, and seed ferns continued into the Triassic, while other gymnosperms such as cycads, cycadeoids and ginkgos appeared for the first time.
The cycads, cycadeoids, conifers, and ginkgos formed the tropical forests in many parts of the world during the Triassic Period.
Cycads and cycadeoids, collectively known as the cycadophytes, grew as shrubs and small trees, some occupying the undergrowth in the conifer forests, and others living in the open under drier conditions.
They reached the first shaggy line of snow-clad conifers and were pausing there, trying to determine where the route now led, when far ahead of them up the slope, a great burst of sound came roaring and a thin column of ocherish fuming matter shot up toward the sky, flattened at the top, changed coloration rapidly toward mottled red, then seemed to sag, drifting down toward the earth again.
A herd of enormous medium to high browsing herbivores could easily overgraze conifers and cycads, leaving open spaces in which the fast-growing seeds of flowering plants could prosper.
Here conifers towered grandly, rising to spreading mats of leaves far overhead.
In the north, a new kind of ecology appeared, a temperate woodland of mixed conifers and deciduous trees.
They secured it at the top, and each member of the group rappeled down, landing safely among the scattered conifers dotted with stately hemlocks.
The land was growing more hilly as they moved farther southwest, and swathes of conifers covered the rolling land.
But this time, instead of regimented rows of conifers, there was a mix of trees.
She could see the belt of conifers ahead that hid the final approach to the bridge.
The breeze drifting along the street brought the perfumes of flowers from the greenspaces, the savory smell of roasted nuts and the deep brown bite of kaffeh, the tang of the conifers, the soft mutter of voices, the click of glasses, of metal against metal, footsteps, coughs.
He said mountain laurel was acid loving and would go with my conifers, but I told him no.