“Typically built in a conifer, often near cones or knots or on an old cone base, the nest can easily be mistaken for a cone.”

“The ancient Ural mountains barely poke their summits above the taiga, Siberia's vast conifer forest.”

“The meandering path was littered with conifer branches and layered with a thick carpet of fresh golden straw.”

“The first synthetic vanillin was produced by German chemists in 1874 from coniferin, the glucoside found in the sapwood of certain conifers.”

“It has been artificially prepared from coniferin, a substance found in the sap-wood of fir-trees, and from asafoetida.”

“Coniferin is converted into grape-sugar and coniferyl alcohol under the influence of emulsine.”

“Three red-brick buildings, which house classrooms and administrative offices, cluster around a courtyard that's ringed with conifers.”

“A double pseudo-testcross strategy has generally been adopted for constructing genetic maps in conifers having allogamous characteristics.”

“Most conifers and a few hardwoods, such as sweetgum and tuliptree, have excurrent forms.”