coniferous tree

1. 1.

   any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones

   Synonymsconifer

   Broadergymnospermous tree

   Narrowerpinelarchgolden larchfircedarsprucehemlockdouglas firCathayacypress

   Partscone

Questions about coniferous tree

What does coniferous tree mean?

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

What is another word for coniferous tree?

Close synonyms include conifer. 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 coniferous tree a common word?

coniferous tree 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.