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From Latin. By surface analysis, cone +‎ -i- +‎ -ferous (bearing), or conifer +‎ -ous (pertaining to), as reflected in the meanings.

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coniferous (comparative more coniferous, superlative most coniferous)

  1. Bearing cones, as the pine and cypress.
  2. Of, or pertaining to, a conifer.
    • 2004, Richard John Huggett, Fundamentals of Biogeography, page 319:
      During the first part of the oligocratic stage, leaching of brown soils produces acid podzols that favour coniferous woodlands and heaths.

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