coniferous

Definitions

Examples

• What’s more, coniferous canopies, by nature of being darker than ice, absorb more light and heat than they reflect.

• As a coniferous forest reclaims the city of Pripyat in Ukraine, hundreds of species, from butterflies to bison, roam crumbling streets and abandoned buildings.

• A 1938 city law decreed that “storekeepers and peddlers may sell and display coniferous trees during the month of December.”

• Since softwood trees bear cones, they are called coniferous trees.

• Why they should prefer coniferous trees, unless to utilize the needles for a nest, is not understood.

• Araucaria, a genus of trees of the coniferous or pine order, indigenous to Australasia and South America.

• The frogs were found beneath logs and rocks in a damp canyon in coniferous forest.

• It seems to prefer rather open coniferous forests in which there is a more or less continuous cover of grasses on the ground.