Crossword-Solution: GYMNOSPERMOUS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Gymnospermous | n. | Having naked seeds, or seeds not inclosed in a capsule or other vessel. |
| Gymnospermous | n. | Belonging to the class of plants consisting of gymnosperms. |
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| PLANT having seeds unprotected by seed-vessels | 2 answers |
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Sentences with GYMNOSPERMOUS (5)
The Bennettiteae, at any rate, were still at the gymnospermous level as regards their pollination, for the exposed micropyles of the ovules were in a position to receive the pollen directly, without the intervention of a stigma.
The general relation of the gymnospermous Seed-plants to the Higher Cryptogamia was cleared up, independently of fossil evidence, by the brilliant researches of Hofmeister, dating from the middle of the past century.
They afford the first positive proof as yet obtained of the co-existence of a varied fauna of the highest class of vertebrata with that ample development of reptile life which marks all the periods from the Trias to the Lower Cretaceous inclusive, and with a gymnospermous flora, or that state of the vegetable kingdom when cycads and conifers predominated over all kinds of plants, except the ferns, so far, at least, as our present imperfect knowledge of fossil botany entitles us to speak.
Very similar would seem to have been the fate of a more familiar gymnospermous tree, the Gingko or Salisburia.
The circumnutating movements of young leaves in 33 genera, belonging to 25 families, widely distributed amongst ordinary and gymnospermous Dicotyledons and amongst Monocotyledons, together with several Cryptogams, have now been described.