Coniferous is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CONIFEROUS in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• bearing cones
• Bearing cones, as the pine and cypress.
• Pertaining to the order Coniferae, of which the pine tree is the type.
• of or relating to or part of trees or shrubs bearing cones and evergreen leaves
• pertaining to a conifer, a tree which bears cones and needle-like or scale-like leaves that are typically evergreen. Conifers are of major importance as the source of softwood, and also supply resins and turpentine.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (as pines) with true cones and others (as yews) with an arillate fruit

How to use CONIFEROUS in a sentence

• Nature has made him master forester and committed most of her coniferous crops to his paws.
• Coniferous trees, in general, seldom possess individual character, such as is manifest among Oaks and Elms.
• The pyramidal trees are included chiefly among the coniferous evergreens, embracing the Pine, the Fir, the Spruce, and the Cypress.
• The gnarled habit of the Oak is conspicuous even in the most crowded forest, and coniferous woods are apt to be disfigured by dead branches projecting from the bole.
• Fires also run along the tops of the coniferous trees high above the ground.
• Signs of pitch on the bark of coniferous trees are the first symptoms of infection.
• In coniferous forests of Canada, and confined to calcareous regions.
• When a forest is burned down in that dry region, it is doubtful if coniferous trees will ever grow again, except in some localities specially favored.
• The forest region, and especially its coniferous portion, though it has lost some of its representatives within historic times, is still rich.
• This is particularly the case with coniferous woods.
• We might reasonably expect that where we find the remains of fossil coniferous trees, we should also meet with the cones or fruit which they bear.
• Solly, stating nothing particular, except that Bucklandia has coniferous tissue, and that Podostemon will probably prove Monocotyledonous and allied to Pistiaceae.

Similar words containing NIFEROU without suffix s and without prefix co

laniferous13 omniferous15 soniferous13 viniferous16 corniferous16 guaniferous15 manniferous16 ozoniferous23 somniferous16 spiniferous16 uriniferous14 luminiferous17 resiniferous15 seleniferous15 seminiferous17 stanniferous15 titaniferous15 aluminiferous18 antenniferous16 carboniferous20 manganiferous19 platiniferous18 polleniferous18 polliniferous18 somniferously21 staminiferous18 stoloniferous16 foraminiferous22

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