Coniferous and Deciduous

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Coniferous

Coniferous adjective - Of or relating to or part of trees or shrubs bearing cones and evergreen leaves.
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Deciduous is an antonym for coniferous.
Nearby Word: conifer

Deciduous

Deciduous adjective - (of plants and shrubs) shedding foliage at the end of the growing season.
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Antonyms for Deciduous
Coniferous is an antonym for deciduous.

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  • Video Game / Pokémon Black and White Though "Juniper" is still the name of a tree, it's a coniferous tree — all the other professors have been named after deciduous trees.
    Source: Video Game / Pokémon Black and White
  • A forest full of thick deciduous angiosperm (or worse, non-coniferous gymnosperm; very few will confuse a ginkgo for a pine) trees pretending to be the Yukon isn't particularly convincing, no matter how much snow is on the ground.
    Source: Misplaced Vegetation
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Antonyms for deciduous

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