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

The spruce bark beetle, or Ips typographus, has been munching its way through the conifer trees of Europe for decades, leaving behind a trail of destruction.

From BBC • Aug. 30, 2025

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

From Slate • Oct. 21, 2024

"Instead of the evergreen conifer forest coming back right away, in some regions, we see a long-term replacement of these forests with faster-growing species."

From Science Daily • Apr. 16, 2024

Over every roof and path hung the boughs of the hemmens, the commonest tree of Winter, a stout conifer with thick pale-scarlet needles.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin