Noun 1. profusely branching and chiefly evergreen trees and some shrubs having narrow or needlelike leaves (synonym) order Coniferales (hypernym) plant order (member-holonym) Coniferopsida, class Coniferopsida, Coniferophytina, subdivision Coniferophytina, Coniferophyta (member-meronym) Pinaceae, family Pinaceae, pine family