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The meaning of CONIFER is any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit.
CONIFEROUS definition: 1. (of a tree) producing cones, and having leaves that do not fall off in the winter: 2. A…. Learn more.
The adjective coniferous is used to describe conifers, woody evergreens that have cones and needles rather than leaves. Coniferous forests and taigas are full of these trees, including pines, hemlocks, junipers, and firs.
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.
adjective. of, relating to, or belonging to the plant phylum Coniferophyta. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. coniferous in American English. (koʊˈnɪfərəs ; kəˈnɪfərəs ) adjective. 1. bearing cones. 2. of conifers. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
n. Any of various mostly needle-leaved or scale-leaved, chiefly evergreen, cone-bearing gymnospermous trees or shrubs of the order Coniferales, such as pines, spruces, and firs. [Latin cōnifer, cone-bearing : cōnus, cone (from Greek kōnos; see kō- in Indo-European roots) + -fer, -fer.]