conifer

1. 1.

   any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones

   Synonymsconiferous tree

   Broadergymnospermous tree

   Narrowerpinelarchgolden larchfircedarsprucehemlockdouglas firCathayacypress

   Partscone

Other forms of conifer

plural

conifers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about conifer

What does conifer mean?

conifer means "any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones".

How many syllables are in conifer?

conifer has 3 syllables: co-ni-fer. The stress falls on "co". In IPA it is /ˈkɑnəfɚ/.

What is another word for conifer?

Close synonyms include coniferous tree. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is conifer a common word?

conifer is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.