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gymnosperm

gymnosperm noun: any plant such as a conifer whose seeds are not enclosed in an ovary.

Noun

gymnosperm (plural gymnosperms)

  1. Any plant such as a conifer whose seeds are not enclosed in an ovary.
    • Like cycads — their gymnosperm relatives — and ferns, the ginkgo produces motile sperm.2015 October 29, Dave Taft, “The Female Ginkgo Tree’s Acrid Smell of Success”, in The New York Times
    • The palynoassemblage is rich in angiosperm taxa (45.63%) followed by gymnosperms (0.45%), pteridophytes (18.49%) and fungal remains (23.88%).2016 March 2, “Depositional Environment of Mio-Pliocene Siwalik Sedimentary Strata from the Darjeeling Himalayan Foothills, India: A Palynological Approach”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

gymnosperm meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Vietnamese

gymnosperm in Hindi

plant whose seeds are not in an ovary
विवृतबीज vivŕtbīj, विवृतबीजी vivŕtbījī, अनावृतबीज anāvŕtbīj, अनावृतबीजी anāvŕtbījī

gymnosperm in Tamil

வித்துமூடியிலி

gymnosperm in Telugu

plant whose seeds are not in an ovary
వివృతబీజము vivr̥tabījamu

gymnosperm in Vietnamese

plant whose seeds are not in an ovary
thực vật hạt trần, thực vật khỏa tử

Forms of gymnosperm

pluralgymnosperms

Origin of gymnosperm

from Ancient Greek γυμνός (gumnós, “naked”) + σπέρμα (spérma, “seed”). By surface analysis, gymno- + sperm.

Words formed from gymnosperm

Questions about gymnosperm

What does gymnosperm mean?
Gymnosperm means any plant such as a conifer whose seeds are not enclosed in an ovary.
What is gymnosperm in Hindi?
Gymnosperm in Hindi is विवृतबीज (vivŕtbīj), विवृतबीजी (vivŕtbījī), अनावृतबीज (anāvŕtbīj). See Gymnosperm meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is gymnosperm?
Gymnosperm is a noun.
What is the plural of gymnosperm?
The plural of gymnosperm is gymnosperms.

Words near gymnosperm in the dictionary

  1. gymnosophical
  2. gymnosophist
  3. gymnosophists
  4. gymnosophs
  5. gymnosophy
  6. gymnosperm
  7. gymnospermal
  8. gymnospermatous
  9. gymnospermic
  10. gymnospermism
  11. gymnospermous

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Adapted from Wiktionary: gymnosperm (page history and authors); gymnosperm (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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