coniferous

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

adjective of or relating to or part of trees or shrubs bearing cones and evergreen leaves

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

It was a sea bordered with sandstone and surrounded by coniferous forests, where stately trees nodded in the breezes. — Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania, Jewett C. (Jewett Castello) Gilson
455 THE GOOSE MAN A MOTHER SEEKS HER SON I The landscape shows many shades of green; deep forests, mostly coniferous, extend from the valley of the Rednitz to that of the Tauber. — The Goose Man, Jakob Wassermann
Speaking of the indigenous coneys and bactrian camels, the naturalist said that the coniferous and bacteriological output of Australasia was remarkable for its many and curious departures from the accepted laws governing these species of tubercles, but that in his opinion Nature's fondness for dabbling in the erratic was most notably exhibited in that curious combination of bird, fish, amphibian, burrower, crawler, quadruped, and Christian called the Ornithorhynchus—grotesquest of animals, king of the animalculae of the world for versatility of character and make-up. — Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World, Mark Twain

cone-bearing

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