gymnospermousadj.
/dʒɪmnəˈspəːməs/ Botany.
Naked-seeded; applied to those plants, e.g. conifers, in which the seeds are not provided with a seed-vessel; belonging to the class Gymnospermæ.
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1727 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. ii. v. 84 Such as have irregular Corollæ, and the Fruit Gymnospermous.
1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. vi. §7. 268 Gymnospermous..plants are so named because the ovules..are fertilized by direct application of the pollen.
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gymnoˈspermal adj. = gymnospermous adj. ( Cent. Dict.)
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gymnoˈspermic adj. = gymnospermous adj. ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1886.)
gymnoˈspermy n. the attribute of being gymnospermous.
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1890 H. E. F. Garnsey & I. B. Balfour tr. J. von Sachs Hist. Bot. i. iii. 142 Thus one of the most remarkable facts in vegetation, the gymnospermy of the Conifers and Cycads, was for the first time established [by Robert Brown, 1825].
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