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'Conifer' is a noun used to refer to a type of tree or shrub with needle-like leaves and cones, such as a pine tree or a fir tree. Example sentence: The forest was full of tall conifers.
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conifer
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A plant belonging to the conifers; a cone-bearing seed plant with vascular tissue, usually a tree.
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It's more than likely that some are descendants of bulbs bred in the mid-19th century by William Backhouse, who hybridised them in the grounds of his austere country house high above Wolsingham, among conifer plantations and windswept moorland at St Johns, on the edge of Pikestone Fell.
When grouse shooting declined after the second world war (overgrazing by sheep and the conversion of moorland to conifer plantations had destroyed much of the grouse's heathery habitat), harrier numbers revived.
It would involve thinning out the sugi and other conifer plantations that cover about 40% of Japan's forests, most of which are now abandoned as uneconomic.
Some contributions are from FWP writers who went on to successful literary careers, including Eudora Welty, Nelson Algren and Zora Neale Hurston.Mr Kurlansky notes that at the time "America Eats" was published, "America had rivers on both coasts teeming with salmon" and "squirrels still leapt from conifer to hardwood in the uncut forests of Appalachia".
In contrast, when Abu Dhabi's poshest hotel, the Emirates Palace, boasted that it had collared the world's most expensive Christmas tree, a conifer encrusted with precious stones valued at over $11m, it was forced to apologise for its tastelessness on the state news agency's website.
Taiga conifer litter is highly acidic.
Conifer sawflies (Diprionidae) are medium-sized insects.
The conifer genera Tsuga (hemlock), Sequoia (redwood), and others replace their Eurosiberian counterparts, and there are nine endemic families of flowering plants.
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Mountains in north temperate regions, such as those of North America, Europe, and northern Asia, generally have conifer-dominated forest on their lower slopes that gives way to alpine vegetation above.
Nor are all forests in areas that receive large amounts of rainfall true rainforests; the conifer-dominated forests in the extremely wet coastal areas of the American Pacific Northwest are temperate evergreen forest ecosystems.
There are 160 pitches but they are well spread out, some under the shelter of conifers, others in more open spaces.
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