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"GYMNOSPERMS" is a plural of: gymnosperm. |
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Biology & Biotechnology | The botanical name for the group of vascular flowering plants that produce seeds not enclosed in an ovary, mostly represented by the Coniferales(conifers). Source: European Union. (references) |
Food & Agriculture | The group of vascular flowering plants that produce seeds not enclosed in an ovary(naked seeds). Source: European Union. (references) |
Health | Gymnosperms are a group of vascular plants whose seeds are not enclosed by a ripened ovary (fruit). Gymnosperms are distinguished from the other major group of seed plants, the angiosperms, whose seeds are surrounded by an ovary wall. The seeds of many gymnosperms (literally, "naked seed") are borne in cones and are not visible. Taxonomists now recognize four distinct divisions of extant gymnospermous plants (Coniferophyta, Cycadophyta, Ginkgophyta, and Gnetophyta). (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Gymnosperms are seed-bearing, vascular plants. The term gymnosperm comes from the Greek word gumnospermos meaning literally "naked seed". This term is applied because the seeds of these plants are not formed in an enclosed ovulary (pistil with one or more carpels, developing into a fruit as in the angiosperms), but naked on the scales of a cone-like structure. At one time, gymnosperm was a class (Class Gymnospermae), first within the seed plants (Division Spermatophyta; 1883~1950), later within the vascular plants (Division Tracheophyta; 1950~1981), and essentially encompassing the conifers and their allies (by which is meant "related species of plants" and including several groups of extinct plants known from fossils). These plants were set off from the other classes of higher plants that recognized the ferns and flowering plants. In the modern classification, the gymnosperms in a stricter sense have been elevated to the Division Pinophyta, with the formerly included Gnetales, Ginkgoales, and Cycadales (the "allied" groups) now given equal rank as Division Gnetophyta, Division Gingkophyta, and Division Cycadophyta — see Kingdom Plantae.
Examples of gymnosperms include cypress, juniper, and — most well known — pine, fir, and redwood. Included in this group are the tallest trees, Giant sequoia, and the world's oldest living trees, the Bristlecone pines that grow only on the North American contintent.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Gymnosperm."
Crosswords: GYMNOSPERMS |
| English words defined with "GYMNOSPERMS": archegonium ♦ class Coniferopsida, class Pteridospermopsida, Coniferophyta, Coniferophytina, Coniferopsida, Cycadales ♦ family Podocarpaceae ♦ group Pteridospermae, group Pteridospermaphyta, gymnosperm family, gymnosperm genus ♦ order Cycadales ♦ Podocarpaceae, podocarpus family, progymnosperm, Pteridospermae, Pteridospermaphyta, Pteridospermopsida ♦ subdivision Coniferophytina ♦ tracheophyte, tree ♦ vascular plant. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "GYMNOSPERMS": Angiosperms, autumn wood ♦ early wood, earlywood ♦ late wood, latewood ♦ podocarp family ♦ springwood, summer wood ♦ Trees. (references) |
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| "GYMNOSPERMS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "GYMNOSPERMS" is used about 8 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 100% | 8 | 124,375 |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
gymnosperms | 36 |
angiosperms gymnosperms | 4 |
gymnosperms picture | 3 |
cycle gymnosperms life | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "GYMNOSPERMS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | gymnospermer (Gymnospermae), gymnospermae (gymnospermae), noegenfroeede planter (gymnospermae), nøgenfrøede (softwoods). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | gymnospermen (Gymnospermae, softwoods), gymnospermae (Gymnospermae), naaktzadigen (gymnospermae, softwoods). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | gymnospermit (Gymnospermae), paljassiemeniset (Gymnospermae). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | gymnospermes (Gymnospermae), résineux, arbres résineux. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Gymnospermen (Gymnospermae, softwoods), Nadelholzbäume (softwoods), Nadelbäume (conifers), nacktsamige Pflanzen (gymnospermae), Nacktsamer (gymnospermae, softwoods). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ρητινώδη (softwoods), γυμνόσπερμα (gymnospermae, softwoods). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | gimnosperme (Gymnospermae, softwoods), resinose (softwoods). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ymnospermsgay Gimnospermas (Gymnospermae), gimnospérmicas (Gymnospermae, softwoods), resinosas (conifer, coniferous tree, softwoods). (various references) gimnospermas (Gymnospermae, softwoods), resinosas (softwoods). (various references) gymnospermer (Gymnospermae), nakenfröiga växter (Gymnospermae). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Gymnospermae. (various references) |
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"GYMNOSPERMS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gynosperm. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-g-m-m-n-o-p-r-s-s-y" | |
-1 letter: gymnosperm. | |
-3 letters: pyrogens, spongers. | |
-4 letters: engross, eponyms, eryngos, groynes, momsers, mongers, morgens, ospreys, persons, presong, progeny, pyrogen, pyrones, sensory, sermons, sponger, sponges. | |
-5 letters: eponym, eryngo, genoms, genros, gnomes, gnoses, goners, gorses, gremmy, gropes, groyne, gyrons, gyrose, memory, mesons, momser, moneys, monger, mopers, mopery, morgen, moseys, mosser, myopes, myoses, ogress, osprey, pengos, person, pogeys, posers. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-m-m-n-o-p-r-s-s-y" | |
+2 letters: gymnospermies, gymnospermous. | |
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