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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • The monotonous floor of conifers and gymnosperms which dotted this part of the continent waved briefly at their passage.

    Cattle Town 2010

  • Pollination drops, pollen and insect pollination of Mesozoic gymnosperms.

    Pollination Wikipedia 2009

  • Catalogue of the flowering plants and gymnosperms of Peru.

    Biological diversity in the Tropical Andes 2009

  • 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

  • Modern gymnosperms, such as conifers, first appeared in their current recognizable forms in the early Triassic.

    Mesozoic 2008

  • 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.

    Eastern Zimbabwe montane forest-grassland mosaic 2008

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