1. Today, two lines of trimmed Irish yews sometimes mark this pathway, with additional yews planted next to raised tombs or graves.

2. Amid London fogs and gloomy graveyards Adrip with dews and yews.

3. Conifers have either two Cotyledons, as in Taxus (yews), or five to ten, as in Pinus (pines).

4. It is often a bright-coloured fleshy envelope, as in such woody plants as the yews and nutmeg, but smaller seed appendages may also be considered Arils, such as the spongy outgrowths on castor beans.

5. So yes, pine trees are Conifers; we all know about pine cones! Cones on Eastern white pine (Pinus strobus) photo by Janice LeCocq However, some Conifers, such a yews, have fleshy cone that look more like fruit.

6. Conifer definition, any of numerous, chiefly evergreen trees or shrubs of the class Coniferinae (or group Coniferales), including the pine, fir, spruce, and other cone-bearing trees and shrubs, and also the yews and their allies that bear drupelike seeds

7. Definition of Conifer : any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit Other Words from Conifer Did …