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conifer
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun conifer has 1 sense
- conifer(n = noun.plant) coniferous tree - any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones; Array has particulars: pine, pine tree, true pine, larch, larch tree, golden larch, pseudolarix amabilis, fir, fir tree, true fir, cedar, cedar tree, true cedar, spruce, hemlock, hemlock tree, douglas fir, cathaya, cedar, cedar tree, cypress, cypress tree, athrotaxis selaginoides, king william pine, dawn redwood, metasequoia, metasequoia glyptostrodoides, arborvitae, keteleeria, wollemi pine, araucaria, dammar pine, kauri pine, plum-yew, celery pine, podocarp, podocarpus coriaceus, yacca, yacca podocarp, brown pine, podocarpus elatus, rockingham podocarp, african yellowwood, cape yellowwood, podocarpus elongatus, podocarpus totara, totara, dacrycarpus dacrydioides, kahikatea, new zealand dacryberry, new zealand white pine, podocarpus dacrydioides, dacrydium cupressinum, imou pine, red pine, rimu, dacrydium colensoi, tar-wood, tarwood, common sickle pine, falcatifolium falciforme, falcatifolium taxoides, yellow-leaf sickle pine, dacrydium bidwilli, halocarpus bidwilli, new zealand mountain pine, tar-wood, tarwood, lagarostrobus colensoi, silver pine, westland pine, dacrydium franklinii, huon pine, lagarostrobus franklinii, nageia nagi, nagi, black pine, miro, podocarpus ferruginea, prumnopitys ferruginea, black pine, matai, podocarpus spicata, prumnopitys taxifolia, plum-fruited yew, prumnopitys andina, prumnopitys elegans, prince albert's yew, prince albert yew, saxe-gothea conspicua, podocarpus amara, prumnopitys amara, sundacarpus amara, japanese umbrella pine, sciadopitys verticillata, yew
has parts: cone, strobile, strobilus
is a kind of gymnospermous tree
Derived form adjective coniferous1
CIDE DICTIONARY
conifer, n. [L. conifer; conus cone + ferre to bear: cf. F. conifère.].
A tree or shrub bearing cones; one of the order Coniferae , which includes the pine, cypress, and (according to some) the yew. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
conifer, n. any evergreen tree of a group usu. bearing cones, including pines, yews, cedars, and redwoods.
Derivative
coniferous adj.
Etymology
L (as cone, -ferous)
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