Adjective: coniferous
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more coniferous |
| Superlative | most coniferous |
Sample Sentences
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During the first part of the oligocratic stage, leaching of brown soils produces acid podzols that favour coniferous woodlands and heaths. [2004, Richard John Huggett, Fundamentals of Biogeography, page 319:]
Adjectives inflected like coniferous
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Latin. By surface analysis, cone + -i- + -ferous (“bearing”), or conifer + -ous (“pertaining to”), as reflected in the meanings.