noun
- Plural of gymnosperm; seed-bearing plants whose seeds are not enclosed in a fruit or ovary, such as conifers, cycads, and ginkgos.
Usage: botanical term; plural form
Examples
- Gymnospermies include pine trees, spruce, and fir trees.
- Unlike flowering plants, gymnospermies produce naked seeds on the surface of cone scales.
- The fossil record shows that gymnospermies dominated forests during the Mesozoic era.
- Students learned to distinguish between gymnospermies and angiosperms in biology class.
- Gymnospermies are well-adapted to cold and dry climates.