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Any plant such as a conifer whose seeds are not enclosed in an ovary.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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plants of the class Gymnospermae having seeds not enclosed in an ovary
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
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Broader terms: spermatophyte, phanerogam, seed plant
Narrower terms: progymnosperm, welwitschia, Welwitschia mirabilis, cycad, seed fern, pteridosperm
from Ancient Greek γυμνός (gumnós, “naked”) + σπέρμα (spérma, “seed”). By surface analysis, gymno- + sperm.
Across languages
Translations
28 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Catalan:
gimnosperma
— plant whose seeds are not in an ovary
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Chinese Mandarin:
裸子植物
(luǒzǐzhíwù)
— plant whose seeds are not in an ovary
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Dutch:
naaktzadige
— plant whose seeds are not in an ovary
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Esperanto:
nudsemplanto
— plant whose seeds are not in an ovary
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Esperanto:
gimnospermo
— plant whose seeds are not in an ovary
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Finnish:
paljassiemeninen
— plant whose seeds are not in an ovary
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German:
Nacktsamer
— plant whose seeds are not in an ovary
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German:
nacktsamige Pflanze
— plant whose seeds are not in an ovary
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Hindi:
विवृतबीज
(vivŕtbīj)
— plant whose seeds are not in an ovary
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Hindi:
विवृतबीजी
(vivŕtbījī)
— plant whose seeds are not in an ovary
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Hindi:
अनावृतबीज
(anāvŕtbīj)
— plant whose seeds are not in an ovary
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Hindi:
अनावृतबीजी
(anāvŕtbījī)
— plant whose seeds are not in an ovary
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Hungarian:
nyitvatermő
— plant whose seeds are not in an ovary
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Italian:
gimnosperma
— plant whose seeds are not in an ovary
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Japanese:
裸子植物
(rashi shokubutsu)
— plant whose seeds are not in an ovary
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Kazakh:
ашық тұқымдылар
(aşyq tūqymdylar)
— plant whose seeds are not in an ovary
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Korean:
겉씨식물
(geotssisingmul)
— plant whose seeds are not in an ovary
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Macedonian:
голосеменик
(golosemenik)
— plant whose seeds are not in an ovary
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Polish:
roślina nagonasienna
— plant whose seeds are not in an ovary
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Polish:
roślina nagozalążkowa
— plant whose seeds are not in an ovary
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Portuguese:
gimnosperma
— plant whose seeds are not in an ovary
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Spanish:
gimnosperma
— plant whose seeds are not in an ovary
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Swedish:
gymnosperm
— plant whose seeds are not in an ovary
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Swedish:
nakenfröig växt
— plant whose seeds are not in an ovary
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Telugu:
వివృతబీజము
(vivr̥tabījamu)
— plant whose seeds are not in an ovary
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Vietnamese:
thực vật hạt trần
— plant whose seeds are not in an ovary
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Vietnamese:
thực vật khỏa tử
— plant whose seeds are not in an ovary
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Welsh:
noeth-hadog
— plant whose seeds are not in an ovary