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Gymnosperm

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any plant such as a conifer whose seeds are not enclosed in an ovary.

    "Like cycads — their gymnosperm relatives — and ferns, the ginkgo produces motile sperm."

  2. 2
    plants of the class Gymnospermae having seeds not enclosed in an ovary wordnet

Etymology

from Ancient Greek γυμνός (gumnós, “naked”) + σπέρμα (spérma, “seed”). By surface analysis, gymno- + sperm.

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