CONIFER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conifer mean? 

• CONIFER (noun)
  The noun CONIFER has 1 sense:

1. any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones

  Familiarity information: CONIFER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONIFER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

conifer; coniferous tree

Hypernyms ("conifer" is a kind of...):

gymnospermous tree (any tree of the division Gymnospermophyta)

Meronyms (parts of "conifer"):

cone; strobile; strobilus (cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "conifer"):

Lagarostrobus colensoi; silver pine; westland pine (timber tree of New Zealand having shiny white wood)

Podocarpus coriaceus; yacca; yacca podocarp (West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves)

brown pine; Podocarpus elatus; Rockingham podocarp (large Australian tree with straight-grained yellow wood that turns brown on exposure)

African yellowwood; cape yellowwood; Podocarpus elongatus (South African tree or shrub having a rounded crown)

Podocarpus totara; totara (valuable timber tree of New Zealand yielding hard reddish wood used for furniture and bridges and wharves)

Dacrycarpus dacrydioides; kahikatea; New Zealand Dacryberry; New Zealand white pine; Podocarpus dacrydioides (New Zealand evergreen valued for its light easily worked wood)

Dacrydium cupressinum; imou pine; red pine; rimu (tall New Zealand timber tree)

Dacrydium colensoi; tar-wood; tarwood (New Zealand silver pine of conical habit with long slender flexuous branches; adapted to cold wet summers and high altitudes)

common sickle pine; Falcatifolium falciforme (small tropical rain forest tree of Indonesia and Malaysia)

Falcatifolium taxoides; yellow-leaf sickle pine (a rain forest tree or shrub of New Caledonia having a conic crown and pale green sickle-shaped leaves; host species for the rare parasite yew)

Dacrydium bidwilli; Halocarpus bidwilli; New Zealand mountain pine; tar-wood; tarwood (New Zealand shrub)

podocarp (any evergreen in the southern hemisphere of the genus Podocarpus having a pulpy fruit with one hard seed)

Dacrydium franklinii; huon pine; Lagarostrobus franklinii (Tasmanian timber tree with yellow aromatic wavy-grained wood used for carving and ship building; sometimes placed in genus Dacrydium)

Nageia nagi; nagi (medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves; southern China to Taiwan and southern Japan)

black pine; miro; Podocarpus ferruginea; Prumnopitys ferruginea (New Zealand conifer used for lumber; the dark wood is used for interior carpentry)

black pine; matai; Podocarpus spicata; Prumnopitys taxifolia (conifer of Australia and New Zealand)

plum-fruited yew; Prumnopitys andina; Prumnopitys elegans (South American evergreen tree or shrub)

Prince Albert's yew; Prince Albert yew; Saxe-gothea conspicua (small yew having attractive foliage and partially weeping branches cultivated as an ornamental; mountains of southern Chile)

Podocarpus amara; Prumnopitys amara; Sundacarpus amara (a large fast-growing monoecious tropical evergreen tree having large glossy lanceolate leaves; of rain forests of Sumatra and Philippines to northern Queensland)

Japanese umbrella pine; Sciadopitys verticillata (tall evergreen having a symmetrical spreading crown and needles growing in whorls that resemble umbrellas at ends of twigs)

yew (any of numerous evergreen trees or shrubs having red cup-shaped berries and flattened needlelike leaves)

cypress; cypress tree (any of numerous evergreen conifers of the genus Cupressus of north temperate regions having dark scalelike leaves and rounded cones)

larch; larch tree (any of numerous conifers of the genus Larix all having deciduous needlelike leaves)

golden larch; Pseudolarix amabilis (Chinese deciduous conifer resembling a larch with golden yellow leaves)

fir; fir tree; true fir (any of various evergreen trees of the genus Abies; chiefly of upland areas)

cedar; cedar tree; true cedar (any cedar of the genus Cedrus)

spruce (any coniferous tree of the genus Picea)

hemlock; hemlock tree (an evergreen tree)

douglas fir (tall evergreen timber tree of western North America having resinous wood and short needles)

Cathaya (Chinese evergreen conifer discovered in 1955; not yet cultivated elsewhere)

cedar; cedar tree (any of numerous trees of the family Cupressaceae that resemble cedars)

pine; pine tree; true pine (a coniferous tree)

Athrotaxis selaginoides; King William pine (evergreen of Tasmanian mountains having sharp-pointed leaves that curve inward)

dawn redwood; metasequoia; Metasequoia glyptostrodoides (large fast-growing Chinese monoecious tree having flat bright-green deciduous leaves and small globular cones; commonly cultivated in United States as an ornamental; known as a fossil before being discovered in China)

arborvitae (any of several Asian and North American conifers of the genera Thuja and Thujopsis)

keteleeria (Asiatic conifers resembling firs)

Wollemi pine (newly discovered (1994) pine thought to have been long extinct; Australia; genus and species names not yet assigned)

araucaria (any of several tall South American or Australian trees with large cones and edible seeds)

dammar pine; kauri pine (any of various trees of the genus Agathis; yield dammar resin)

plum-yew (any of several evergreen trees and shrubs of eastern Asia resembling yew and having large seeds enclosed in a fleshy envelope; sometimes cultivated as ornamentals)

celery pine (Australasian evergreen conifer having a graceful head of foliage resembling celery that is composed of phyllodes borne in the axils of scalelike leaves)

Derivation:

coniferous (of or relating to or part of trees or shrubs bearing cones and evergreen leaves)

 Context examples 

The oil extracted from the foliage and wood of various conifers, especially Thuja occidentalis.

(Cedar Leaf Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

Long-lived trees, such as pines from high elevations and other conifers found across the high-northern latitude boreal forests, can store carbon for many centuries.

(Amount of carbon stored in forests reduced as climate warms, University of Cambridge)