(n.) A tree or shrub bearing cones; one of the order Coniferae, which includes the pine, cypress, and (according to some) the yew.
Example Sentences:
(1) Words included in this title include mistletoe, gerbil, acorn, goldfish, guinea pig, dandelion, starling, fern, willow, conifer, heather, buttercup, sycamore, holly, ivy, and conker.
(2) In our dog days this was a favoured spot, a conifer plantation where he could do no harm, a springy floored place without seasons where a wee up a tree was all he could leave behind.
(3) Differences in the rDNA content in Picea could contribute to the variation, in overall genome size, that has been observed within conifer species.
(4) Deciduous trees and conifers react differently to increased atmospheric CO2.
(5) The pollen grains of conifers are very weak allergens; their structure and function are different from those of the remaining flowering plants.
(6) The ability to grow in liquid media with D-xylose, xylan from decidous trees, and hemicelluloses from conifers was tested in 95 strains of 35 genera of yeasts and yeast-like organisms.
(7) With regard to an early diagnosis of defects within the photosynthetic system of conifers by air pollutants, we measured the chlorophyll fluorescence from microscopic parts of individual pine and spruce needles.
(8) The presence of the gidA gene on the chloroplast genomes of conifers may therefore be of significance with respect to the ability of these plants to synthesize chlorophyll in the dark.
(9) Similarities in linkage relationships among Scots pine, other pines, and other species within the Pinaceae support karyological research that suggests extensive conservation of the conifer genome.
(10) According to Weir, five conifer species account for 88% of all England’s softwood forests and five broadleaf species make up over 72% of its hardwood woodlands.
(11) Small numbers are present in algae, ferns, conifers, sponges, echinoderms, other marine animals, and arthropods.
(12) Conifers face axe to save British woodland Read more At the far side of the wood, spindly black-tipped ash seedlings began to appear, growing at the side of the path.
(13) Only the conifers were, as a group, unlikely to harbor INA bacteria.
(14) Dispersion of repetitive DNA by transposition, coupled with loss of the large inverted repeat, appears to have predisposed conifer cpDNA to a number of inversions.
(15) The size and number of aerial spray drops impinging on spruce budworm in its conifer forest habitat were determined by means of a new tracer method that uses fluorescent particles in a liquid spray.
(16) The evergreen Churchill Arms on Kensington Church Street becomes one enormous conifer each December.
(17) But the planting of new woods on open land, and conversion of broadleaf woodlands to conifers, has been a trend in Britain since Victorian times.
(18) • Felsham Road, Bradfield St George, Bury St Edmund's goodrobert Chopwell Wood, Rowlands Gill, Tyne and Wear Chopwell Wood is a conifer and mixed broadleaf wood.
(19) Much of the landscape is to be radically altered over the next 100 years as the Forestry Commission fells tens of millions of conifer trees to stimulate the growth of ash, beech, oak, hazel, field maple and other native broadleaved species.
(20) Higson’s first task in solving MK’s landscaping problem was “practical, rather ordinary gardening things”: planting semi-mature trees and fast-growing conifers to provide quick cover.
Coniferous
Definition:
(a.) Bearing cones, as the pine and cypress.
(a.) Pertaining to the order Coniferae, of which the pine tree is the type.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is suggested that high corticosterone levels are involved in the emigration of juveniles out of the coniferous forest.
(2) The size of such immune stratum characterizes the activity of natural foci: the largest immune stratum (25.4%) exists among the population of regions with broad-leaved forests, this stratum is somewhat less (12.2-13.2%) in regions with combined coniferous and broad-leaved forest, in regions with different combinations of broad-leaved forests and steppes, as well as mountain forests.
(3) The most dangerous foci of TBE were found to be located in the southern Okhotsk region grown with dark coniferous forests.
(4) The high northern latitudes are warming more rapidly than other parts of the Earth, with climate models predicting a northward shift of Arctic vegetation that will see the boreal biome (coniferous forest across North America and Eurasia) migrate into what is currently tundra (treeless plains of the Arctic).
(5) Either dry or humit warm-air inhalations with coniferous oil additives were prescribed depending on the type of sillness.
(6) This paper concerns the microbiological part of an investigation, the goal of which is to describe the biological changes in coniferous forest soil upon clear-cutting in a northern (66 degrees 20'N) moraine area where reforestation after clear-cutting had been met with difficulty.
(7) Exposure to terpenes and other heating products of coniferous woods was significantly associated with a risk of respiratory cancer when the duration of exposure exceeded five years.
(8) Two populations of Apodemus sylvaticus, one in deciduous woodland and another in coniferous forest in Co. Down, Northern Ireland, were trapped at monthly intervals over 33 months.
(9) The geographical variability of the population of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus in the northern part of the zone of combined coniferous and broad-leaved forests was established; this variability was manifested by higher virulence and homogeneity of TBE virus strains, as shown in experiments on white mice receiving the virus extraneurally, in comparison with the southern part of the zone and by higher virus carriership of the ticks Ixodes persulcatus.
(10) Therefore, the contamination of the mushrooms in the coniferous forest of Koralpenblick (1000 m) is higher than in the mixed forest at the Rosenberg around Graz at approx.
(11) Elevated values at other times in coniferous areas may have been related to the consumption of epiphytic lichens.
(12) Glover says the commission is not a guardian of our woods, having "for most of its existence ... gone about ripping up ancient forests and heathlands and covering them in industrial coniferous monoculture".
(13) Lignins of coniferous timber proved most effective.
(14) Voles from wet coniferous habitats contained concentrations of 137Cs twenty- to fiftyfold higher than voles from deciduous habitats.
(15) Clemens) that has ravaged the coniferous softwoods of eastern Canada and the United States.
(16) The study was concerned with the influence of lignins of leaf-bearing and coniferous timber and 22 model compounds (lignin components) on nitrosation of dimethylamine, amidopyrine and morpholine in human gastric juice.
(17) Altogether, 17.8 thousand mosquitoes were examined which were collected in June-August, 1985, in the light and dark coniferous subzones of mid-taiga.
(18) The most expressive decrease of humoral immunity was noted in middle-aged people living in the subzone of broad-leaved and coniferous forests and forest steppe.
(19) They are more effective enriched by coniferous plants which contain ingredients able to absorb and transport these groups of environmental pollutants in the organism.
(20) The method of molecular hybridization of nucleic acids (MHNA) is compared to the traditional bioprobe technique in the study of virus carriership of I. persulcatus ticks collected in the South and in the North of the area of coniferous and broad-leaved forests in the Khabarovsk Territory.