Definition of Gymnosperms. Meaning of Gymnosperms. Synonyms of Gymnosperms

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Definition of Gymnosperms

Gymnosperm
Gymnosperm Gym"no*sperm, n. (Bot.) A plant that bears naked seeds (i. e., seeds not inclosed in an ovary), as the common pine and hemlock. Cf. Angiosperm.

Meaning of Gymnosperms from wikipedia

- specify the modern monophyletic group of gymnosperms, the term Acrogymno****e is sometimes used. The gymnosperms and angiosperms together constitute the...
- The gymnosperms consist of five orders of seed plants: Cupressales, Cycadales, Ginkgoales, Gnetales and Pinales. They developed more than 350 million...
- Jur****ic and Cretaceous Periods. It is characterized by the dominance of gymnosperms such as cycads, ginkgoaceae and araucarian conifers, and of archosaurian...
- of the familiar land plants, including the flowering plants and the gymnosperms, but not ferns, mosses, or algae. The term phanerogam or phanerogamae...
- Angiosperms are distinguished from the other major seed plant clade, the gymnosperms, by having flowers, xylem consisting of vessel elements instead of tracheids...
- referred to as the subclass Dicotyledons into two tribes, Gymnosperms and Angiosperms. In the gymnosperms (or Gymno****e) Lindley included two orders, the...
- than mosses. Vascular plants include the clubmosses, horsetails, ferns, gymnosperms (including conifers), and angiosperms (flowering plants). They are contrasted...
- Molecular phylogenies of extant gymnosperms have conflicted with morphological characters with regard to whether the gymnosperms as a whole (including gnetophytes)...
- Conifers are a group of cone-bearing seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms. Scientifically, they make up the division Pinophyta (/pɪˈnɒfɪtə, ˈpaɪnoʊfaɪtə/)...
- considered to be links between ferns and the gymnosperms which evolved in the Tri****ic period. The gymnosperms include conifers, cycads, gnetales and ginkgos...