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Gymnosperm

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Noun

1. gymnosperm

plants of the class Gymnospermae having seeds not enclosed in an ovary

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Gymnosperm

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noun
any seed-bearing plant in which the ovules are borne naked on the surface of the megasporophylls, which are often arranged in cones. Gymnosperms, which include conifers and cycads, are traditionally classified in the division Gymnospermae but in modern classifications are split into separate phyla
Compare angiosperm

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Gymnosperm

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noun
any of a large division (Pinophyta) of seed plants having the ovules borne on open scales, usually in cones, and usually lacking true vessels in the woody tissue, including seed ferns, cycads, conifers, and the ginkgo
see also angiosperm

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Gymnosperm

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n.
A vascular plant, such as a cycad or conifer, whose seeds are not enclosed within an ovary.

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