conifer

Example Sentences

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Hanson assured me this vast landscape of brush was already making its return as a conifer forest.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2025

Angiosperms, or flowering plants, grew back faster and denser than the previously ubiquitous conifer relatives had been.

From Slate • Oct. 21, 2024

The corridor offers sightseeing, sports and history amid conifer forests, alpine passes and more — but you’ll have to slow down a bit.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 28, 2024

"It is pretty incredible to think that the history of North American conifer forests can be told by measuring the few pollen grains that manage to make it through the atmosphere to the ice sheet."

From Science Daily • Feb. 8, 2024

Even though most of Japan escaped the glaciers that blanketed Britain and Canada, Japan was still cold, dry, and extensively covered with conifer and birch forests offering little plant food to humans.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond