Gymnospermous (Adjective)
Meaning
Relating to or characteristic of plants of the class Gymnospermae.
Classification
Relational adjectives (pertainyms).
Examples
- Cedar, pine, and cypress trees are gymnospermous, with exposed seeds rather than fruits or flowers.
- Many ancient conifers have gymnospermous reproductive structures with cone-like female structures that bear ovules.
- A feature that differentiates them from flowering plants is the presence of seeds without covering on gymnospermous trees.
- Taxonomists identified certain fossils of a cycadeoid that resembled those of both angiosperms and gymnospermous conifers.
- Several groups of trees in this garden include some very large, exotic, gymnospermous evergreen conifers that shed leaves every few years