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Coniferous

//kəˈnɪfəɹəs// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Bearing cones, as the pine and cypress.
  2. 2
    Of, or pertaining to, a conifer.

    "During the first part of the oligocratic stage, leaching of brown soils produces acid podzols that favour coniferous woodlands and heaths."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to or part of trees or shrubs bearing cones and evergreen leaves wordnet

Etymology

From Latin. By surface analysis, cone + -i- + -ferous (“bearing”), or conifer + -ous (“pertaining to”), as reflected in the meanings.

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