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Relating to conference. [R.] Clarke.

Capable of being conferred.

Same as Conferee.

One who confers; one who converses. Johnson.

Closely united by the coalescence, or sticking together, of contiguous faces, as in the case of the cotyledons of the live-oak acorn.

Any unbranched, slender, green plant of the fresh-water algae. The word is frequently used in a wider sense.

Belonging to the confervae.

Like, or related to, the confervae. Loudon.

Pertaining to confervae; consisting of, or resembling, the confervae. Yon exiguous pool's confervous scum. O. W. Holmes.

A tree or shrub bearing cones; one of the order Coniferae, which includes the pine, cypress, and (according to some) the yew.

A glucoside extracted from the cambium layer of coniferous trees as a white crystalline substance.

Pertaining to the order Coniferae, of which the pine tree is the type.

Containing or producing coral.

ining to the lowest period of the Devonian age.(See the Diagram, under Geology.) The Corniferous period has been so called from the numerous seams of hornstone which characterize the later part of the period, as developed in the State of New York.

One of the Gorgoniacea; -- so called because the fleshy part surrounds a solid axis, like a bark.

Producing bark or something that resembling that resembles bark.

Bearing corymbs of flowers or fruit.

Rib-bearing, as the dorsal vertebræ.

To fertilize, as the stigmas of a flower or plant, with the pollen from another individual of the same species.

Any plant of the order Cruciferæ.