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Any of an order of trees and shrubs, conifers usually have usually needle-shaped or scale-like leaves. Conifers include forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) that bear a fruit. There are more than 550 species of conifers, and most are evergreen trees and shrubs.
(of a tree) producing cones, and having leaves that do not fall off in the winter: An informal mix of trees and shrubs is preferable, with more coniferous than deciduous species. ancient woodland of mixed deciduous and coniferous trees. See. conifer.
(of a tree) producing cones, and having leaves that do not fall off in the winter: An informal mix of trees and shrubs is preferable, with more coniferous than deciduous species. ancient forest of mixed deciduous and coniferous trees. See. conifer.
1. bearing cones. 2. of conifers. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved. coniferous in American English. (kouˈnɪfərəs, kə-) adjective. Botany. belonging or pertaining to the conifers. Compare conifer (sense 1)
Coniferous definition: belonging or pertaining to the conifers. . See examples of CONIFEROUS used in a sentence.
Conifers are a group of cone-bearing seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms. Scientifically, they make up the division Pinophyta (/ pɪˈnɒfɪtə, ˈpaɪnoʊfaɪtə /), also known as Coniferophyta (/ ˌkɒnɪfəˈrɒfɪtə, - oʊfaɪtə /) or Coniferae. The division contains a single extant class, Pinopsida.
Conifer, any member of the division Pinophyta, class Pinopsida, order Pinales, made up of living and fossil gymnospermous plants that usually have needle-shaped evergreen leaves and seeds attached to the scales of a woody bracted cone. Among living gymnosperm divisions, the conifers show little.
