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.