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conifer

[koh-nuh-fer, kon-uh-] / ˈkoʊ nə fər, ˈkɒn ə- /
NOUN
fir
Synonyms


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Hanson assured me this vast landscape of brush was already making its return as a conifer forest.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2025

The couple, who have been together for 11 years, exchanged vows before an array of conifer branches and lights - their two young sons had front row seats.

From BBC • Jan. 12, 2025

Angiosperms, or flowering plants, grew back faster and denser than the previously ubiquitous conifer relatives had been.

From Slate • Oct. 21, 2024

They also found similarly amplifying feedbacks in other permafrost-relevant processes, like the loss of boreal conifer forests due to fire -- but here, too, only at the local to regional scale.

From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2024

Over every roof and path hung the boughs of the hemmens, the commonest tree of Winter, a stout conifer with thick pale-scarlet needles.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin