coniferous

comparative more coniferous · superlative most coniferous

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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   The planting of coniferous trees in England is at a low level, with our Nature for Climate Fund focusing on the establishment of native broadleaf woodlands at a large scale.

   2022 January 12, Fiona Harvey, “Conifer plantation push could threaten red squirrel population, study finds”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 22 Nov 2022