Among phanerogams (seed plants), only two orders of gymnosperms, the Cycadales and the Ginkgoales, have ciliated motile sperm cells; all others (higher gymnosperms and angiosperms) have nonmotile sperm cells or sperm nuclei.
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Phanerogam
//ˈfænəɹəɡæm//
Synonyms for "phanerogam" (4 found)
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18 translations across 13 languages.
Catalan
2 entries- espermatòfit noun (plant that produces seeds)
- fanerògama noun (plant that produces seeds)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 顯花植物 /显花植物 noun (plant that produces seeds)
Dutch
1 entries- zaadplant noun (plant that produces seeds)
Estonian
1 entries- seemnetaim noun (plant that produces seeds)
Faroese
1 entries- fræplanta noun (plant that produces seeds)
Finnish
1 entries- siemenkasvi noun (plant that produces seeds)
French
1 entries- phanérogame noun (plant that produces seeds)
German
1 entries- Samenpflanze noun (plant that produces seeds)
Ido
1 entries- fanerogamo noun (plant that produces seeds)
Italian
1 entries- spermatofita noun (plant that produces seeds)
Spanish
4 entries- espermatofita noun (plant that produces seeds)
- espermatofito noun (plant that produces seeds)
- espermatófita noun (plant that produces seeds)
- espermatófito noun (plant that produces seeds)
Swedish
2 entries- fanerogam noun (plant that produces seeds)
- fröväxt noun (plant that produces seeds)
Tagalog
1 entries- butuhan noun (plant that produces seeds)
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The stomach contents of the Selerikanka horse contained 116 taxa: 96 phanerogams, 20 cryptogams. Among the phanerogams were 12 tree species, 14 species of shrubs and dwarf-shrubs, as well as 72 species of herbs and very small dwarf-shrubs.
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Generally speaking, the ranges of most cryptogams are geographically broader than those of phanerogams, and many more species are widely disjunct over the world.
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