seed ferns
1seed and fruit — ▪ plant reproductive part Introduction respectively, the characteristic reproductive (reproductive system, plant) body of both angiosperms (flowering plants) and gymnosperms (conifers, cycads, and ginkgos) and the ovary that encloses it.… …
2seed fern — any of various plants of the order Lyginopteridales (or Cycadofilicales), known only as fossils, having fernlike leaves and reproducing by means of seeds. Also called pteridosperm. [1925 30] * * * ▪ plant loose confederation of seed plants… …
3seed plant — a seed bearing plant; spermatophyte. [1700 10] * * * or spermatophyte Any of the flowering plants (angiosperms) and the conifers and related plants (gymnosperms). Seed plants share many features with ferns, including the presence of vascular… …
4Seed — A seed Audio IPA|en us seed.ogg|/ˈsiːd/ (in some plants, referred to as a kernel) is a small embryonic plant enclosed in a covering called the seed coat, usually with some stored food. It is the product of the ripened ovule of gymnosperm and… …
5seed fern — noun Date: 1927 any of an order (Pteridospermales) of extinct cycadophytes with foliage like that of ferns and with naked seeds …
6fern seed — noun the asexual spore of ferns that resembles dust; once thought to be seeds and to make the possessor invisible • Hypernyms: ↑spore • Part Holonyms: ↑fern * * * noun : the dustlike asexual spores of ferns that were formerly taken for seeds and… …
7Soil seed bank — The soil seed bank is the collective name for the store of seeds, often dormant, which are stored within the soil of many terrestrial ecosystems. Background Soil seeds banks of particular taxa have been classified according to the longevity of… …
8fern seed — fern′ seed n. bot the spores of ferns, formerly supposed to have the power to make persons invisible …
9fern seed — /ˈfɜn sid/ (say fern seed) noun the spores of ferns, invisible to the naked eye and therefore formerly supposed to have the power to make persons invisible …
10fern seed — n. the dustlike spores of ferns: formerly believed to make the person who carried them invisible …
