conifer

1. Any gymnospermous tree or shrub bearing cones (synset 113129600)
   is a type of: gymnospermous tree - any tree of the division Gymnospermophyta
   subtypes:

   • pine, pine tree, true pine - a coniferous tree
   • larch, larch tree - any of numerous conifers of the genus Larix all having deciduous needlelike leaves
   • golden larch, pseudolarix amabilis - Chinese deciduous conifer resembling a larch with golden yellow leaves
   • fir, fir tree, true fir - any of various evergreen trees of the genus Abies; chiefly of upland areas
   • cedar, cedar tree, true cedar - any cedar of the genus Cedrus
   • spruce - any coniferous tree of the genus Picea
   • hemlock, hemlock tree - an evergreen tree
   • douglas fir - tall evergreen timber tree of western North America having resinous wood and short needles
   • cathaya - Chinese evergreen conifer discovered in 1955; not yet cultivated elsewhere
   • cedar, cedar tree - any of numerous trees of the family Cupressaceae that resemble cedars
   • cypress, cypress tree - any of numerous evergreen conifers of the genus Cupressus of north temperate regions having dark scalelike leaves and rounded cones
   • athrotaxis selaginoides, king william pine - evergreen of Tasmanian mountains having sharp-pointed leaves that curve inward
   • dawn redwood, metasequoia, metasequoia glyptostrodoides - large fast-growing Chinese monoecious tree having flat bright-green deciduous leaves and small globular cones; commonly cultivated in United States as an ornamental; known as a fossil before being discovered in China
   • arborvitae - any of several Asian and North American conifers of the genera Thuja and Thujopsis
   • keteleeria - Asiatic conifers resembling firs
   • wollemi pine - newly discovered (1994) pine thought to have been long extinct; Australia; genus and species names not yet assigned
   • araucaria - any of several tall South American or Australian trees with large cones and edible seeds
   • dammar pine, kauri pine - any of various trees of the genus Agathis; yield dammar resin
   • plum-yew - any of several evergreen trees and shrubs of eastern Asia resembling yew and having large seeds enclosed in a fleshy envelope; sometimes cultivated as ornamentals
   • celery pine - Australasian evergreen conifer having a graceful head of foliage resembling celery that is composed of phyllodes borne in the axils of scalelike leaves
   • podocarp - any evergreen in the southern hemisphere of the genus Podocarpus having a pulpy fruit with one hard seed
   • podocarpus coriaceus, yacca, yacca podocarp - West Indian evergreen with medium to long leaves
   • brown pine, podocarpus elatus, rockingham podocarp - large Australian tree with straight-grained yellow wood that turns brown on exposure
   • african yellowwood, cape yellowwood, podocarpus elongatus - South African tree or shrub having a rounded crown
   • podocarpus totara, totara - valuable timber tree of New Zealand yielding hard reddish wood used for furniture and bridges and wharves
   • dacrycarpus dacrydioides, kahikatea, new zealand dacryberry, new zealand white pine, podocarpus dacrydioides - New Zealand evergreen valued for its light easily worked wood
   • dacrydium cupressinum, imou pine, red pine, rimu - tall New Zealand timber tree
   • dacrydium colensoi, tar-wood, tarwood - New Zealand silver pine of conical habit with long slender flexuous branches; adapted to cold wet summers and high altitudes
   • common sickle pine, falcatifolium falciforme - small tropical rain forest tree of Indonesia and Malaysia
   • falcatifolium taxoides, yellow-leaf sickle pine - a rain forest tree or shrub of New Caledonia having a conic crown and pale green sickle-shaped leaves; host species for the rare parasite yew
   • dacrydium bidwilli, halocarpus bidwilli, new zealand mountain pine, tar-wood, tarwood - New Zealand shrub
   • lagarostrobus colensoi, silver pine, westland pine - timber tree of New Zealand having shiny white wood
   • dacrydium franklinii, huon pine, lagarostrobus franklinii - Tasmanian timber tree with yellow aromatic wavy-grained wood used for carving and ship building; sometimes placed in genus Dacrydium
   • nageia nagi, nagi - medium-sized tree having glossy lanceolate leaves; southern China to Taiwan and southern Japan
   • black pine, miro, podocarpus ferruginea, prumnopitys ferruginea - New Zealand conifer used for lumber; the dark wood is used for interior carpentry
   • black pine, matai, podocarpus spicata, prumnopitys taxifolia - conifer of Australia and New Zealand
   • plum-fruited yew, prumnopitys andina, prumnopitys elegans - South American evergreen tree or shrub
   • prince albert yew, prince albert's yew, saxe-gothea conspicua - small yew having attractive foliage and partially weeping branches cultivated as an ornamental; mountains of southern Chile
   • podocarpus amara, prumnopitys amara, sundacarpus amara - a large fast-growing monoecious tropical evergreen tree having large glossy lanceolate leaves; of rain forests of Sumatra and Philippines to northern Queensland
   • japanese umbrella pine, sciadopitys verticillata - tall evergreen having a symmetrical spreading crown and needles growing in whorls that resemble umbrellas at ends of twigs
   • yew - any of numerous evergreen trees or shrubs having red cup-shaped berries and flattened needlelike leaves
   has: cone, strobile, strobilus - cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts
   same as: coniferous tree

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