English > gymnosperm: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | plants of the class Gymnospermae having seeds not enclosed in an ovary. |
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| Member of | Gymnospermae, class Gymnospermae, Gymnospermophyta, division Gymnospermophyta | plants having naked seeds not enclosed in an ovary |
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| Narrower | cycad | Any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales |
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| progymnosperm | An ancestral fossil type from which modern gymnosperms are thought to have derived |
| seed fern, pteridosperm | An extinct seed-producing fernlike plant of the order Cycadofilicales (or group Pteridospermae) |
| welwitschia, Welwitschia mirabilis | curious plant of arid regions of southwestern Africa having a yard-high and yard-wide trunk like a turnip with a deep taproot and two large persistent woody straplike leaves growing from the base |
| Broader | spermatophyte, phanerogam, seed plant | plant that reproduces by means of seeds not spores |
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| Spanish | gimnosperma, gimnospermas, gymnospermae |
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| Catalan | gimnosperma, gimnosperm |
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| Adjectives | gymnospermous | relating to or characteristic of plants of the class Gymnospermae |
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