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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

(a)

Bearing cones, as the pine and cypress.

(b)

Pertaining to the order

Coniferae

, of which the pine tree is the type.

Adj.

[L., to bear.] Bearing cones; producing hard, dry, scaly seed-vessels of a conical figure, as the pine, fir, cypress and beech.

coniferous ‎(comparative more coniferous, superlative most coniferous)

bearing cones

of a conifer