noun
- a plant that produces seeds that are not enclosed in an ovary or fruit
Usage: botanical
Examples
- Pine trees are gymnosperms that produce seeds in cones.
- Gymnosperms include conifers, cycads, and ginkgo trees.
- Unlike flowering plants, gymnosperms have naked seeds.
- The redwood forest consists mainly of gymnosperms.
- Gymnosperms evolved before flowering plants appeared on Earth.
- Students learned to identify gymnosperms by their cone-bearing structures.