Look up: gymnosperm

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   gymnosperm
   n. A plant that produces seeds, which are not enclosed; includes any seed plant that does not produce flowers.
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   Gymnosperm
   Gymnosperms meaning naked seeds) are seed-bearing plants that don't produce flowers. They release pollen into the air to the female ovule, causing fertilization. Their seeds develop without a protective covering. The earliest gymnosperms were seed ferns from the Devonian period (408-360 million years ago). Conifers (like pines, redwoods, and fir), gingkos, seed ferns, cycadeoids, and cycads are gymnosperms. These plants were very important to plant-eating dinosaurs .
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   Gymnosperm
   A gymnosperm is a plant with a naked seed, there being no proper ovary the seeds being fertilised by the pollen coming into direct contact with the foramen of the ovule without the intervention of a stigma.
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   gymnosperm
   [n] - plants of the class Gymnospermae having seeds not enclosed in an ovary
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   gymnosperm
   the group of vascular flowering plants that produce seeds not enclosed in an ovary(naked seeds) Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries • The botanical name for the group of vascular flowering plants that produce seeds not enclosed in an ovary,mostly represented by the Coniferales(conifers). Category: Botany and zoology
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   Gymnosperm
   Gym'no·sperm (jĭm'no*spẽrm) noun (Botany) A plant that bears naked seeds ( i. e. , seeds not inclosed in an ovary), as the common pine and hemlock. Confer Angiosperm .
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   gymnosperm
   A seed plant with the ovules borne on the surface of a sporophyll. ... Compare: angiosperm. ... (09 Oct 1997) ...
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   Gymnosperm
   The `gymnosperms` (Gymnospermae) are a group of spermatophyte seed-bearing plants with ovules on the edge or blade of an open sporophyll, the sporophylls usually arranged in cone-like structures. The other major group of seed-bearing plants, the angiosperms, have ovules enclosed in a carpel, a sporophyll with fused margins. The term gymnosperm comes from the Greek word `gumnospermos`, meaning `naked seeds` and referring to the unenclosed conditio...
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   Gymnosperm
   • (n.) A plant that bears naked seeds (i. e., seeds not inclosed in an ovary), as the common pine and hemlock. Cf. Angiosperm.
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    gymnosperm
    any vascular plant that reproduces by means of an exposed seed, or ovule, as opposed to an angiosperm, or flowering plant, whose seeds are enclosed ... [19 related articles]
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    gymnosperm
    gymnosperm In botany, having seeds which are not enclosed in an ovary or carpel.
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    Gymnosperm
    Plant that bears naked seeds. Representatives of this group include the conifers.
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    gymnosperm
    A seed plant with seeds not enclosed in an ovary. Gymnosperms make up the smaller of the two main classes of seed-bearing plants, the other being the angiosperms. All gymnosperms are perennials and most are evergreen. There are several orders, including the conifers (Coniferales), such as pine, larg...
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    gymnosperm
    gymnosperm: see angiosperm.
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