a. Bot. [f. L. cōnifer (see above) + -OUS.] Bearing cones; belonging to the botanical order Coniferæ (see CONIFER); pertaining to or consisting of conifers.

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1664.  Evelyn, Sylva, xxi. (R.). Resinacious and coniferous trees.

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a. 1682.  Sir T. Browne, Tracts, 64. The Cedar of Libanus is a coniferous tree, bearing cones or cloggs.

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1834.  R. Mudie, Brit. Birds (1841), II. 71. To nestle high in the coniferous trees.

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1884.  Bower & Scott, De Bary’s Phaner., 515. These relations … appear most clearly and simply in the Coniferous woods.

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