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- noun Plural form of
gymnosperm .
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One hundred million years before the emergence of fruit-bearing flowering plants called “angiosperms”, there were other plants called gymnosperms.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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One hundred million years before the emergence of fruit-bearing flowering plants called “angiosperms”, there were other plants called gymnosperms.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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One hundred million years before the emergence of fruit-bearing flowering plants called “angiosperms”, there were other plants called gymnosperms.
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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These are named respectively "gymnosperms" and "angiosperms," and to the first our plant belongs.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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The monotonous floor of conifers and gymnosperms which dotted this part of the continent waved briefly at their passage.
Cattle Town 2010
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Pollination drops, pollen and insect pollination of Mesozoic gymnosperms.
Pollination Wikipedia 2009
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Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru.
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Pollination in angiosperms and gymnosperms is the process that transfers pollen grains, which contain the male gametes (sperm) to where the female gamete (s) are contained within the carpel; [1] in gymnosperms the pollen is directly applied to the ovule itself.
Pollination Wikipedia 2009
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Modern gymnosperms, such as conifers, first appeared in their current recognizable forms in the early Triassic.
Mesozoic 2008
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At higher elevations the climate becomes drier and the vegetation grades into a more sclerophyllous forest with gymnosperms such as Widdringtonia cupressoides, W. whytei, Podocarpus milanjianus, and Juniperus procera dominating.
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