Definitions for conifer

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conifer co·ni·fer

Spelling: [koh-nuh-fer, kon-uh-]

IPA: /ˈkoʊ nə fər, ˈkɒn ə-/

Conifer is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 182 anagrams from letters in conifer (cefinor).

Definitions for conifer

noun

1. any of numerous, chiefly evergreen trees or shrubs of the class Coniferinae (or group Coniferales), including the pine, fir, spruce, and other cone-bearing trees and shrubs, and also the yews and their allies that bear drupelike seeds.
2. a plant producing naked seeds in cones, or single naked seeds as in yews, but with pollen always borne in cones.

Origin of conifer

1350-1400; Middle English conefere Latin cōnifer coniferous, equivalent to cōn(us) cone + -i- + -fer -fer

Examples for conifer

The Australian species are comprised in a small number of families, notably in those of the conifer and Myrtace.

Cheryl Brown, former CEO of the conifer Council in Texas/Arkansas also saw the storm coming.

Thus they encamped near the conifer, and called the place Toha-a-muk-is after the spruce they were afraid to touch.

Larches, firs, all the trees of the conifer family are going fast.

It suffices to name the families of the conifer and the Amentace, which compose the greater portion of the Flora of our forests.

Here have been found only marine plants, wood, and branches of conifer.

There was a prodigious growth of ferns, lepidodendra, equisetace, conifer.

No other conifer has this trait, no pine grows but shows it every day in the year.

conifer.1—Shrubs or trees with rigid evergreen, linear leaves; and resinous juices.

The trees of the world, from conifer to cactus, are here, and every flower that blooms.