coniferous

Etymology

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

adj

  1. Bearing cones, as the pine and cypress.
  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. 2004, Richard John Huggett, Fundamentals of Biogeography, page 319

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