Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plant of the phylum Spermatophyta; a seed-plant; a spermophyte.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Any plant of the phylum Spermatophyta.
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- noun botany Any
plant that bearsseeds rather thanspores
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- noun plant that reproduces by means of seeds not spores
Etymologies
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spermato- + -phyte
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The elucidation of spermatophyte phylogeny continues to be a work in progress, despite numerous studies using single, few or several genes and morphology datasets (morphological:
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Jose Eduardo de la Torre-Bárcena et al. 2009
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