seed-bearing plant

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• seed plant — seed′ plant n. pln a seed bearing plant; spermatophyte • Etymology: 1700–10 …   From formal English to slang

• seed plant — noun plant that reproduces by means of seeds not spores • Syn: ↑spermatophyte, ↑phanerogam • Hypernyms: ↑vascular plant, ↑tracheophyte • Hyponyms: ↑seedling, ↑balsam, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• seed 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… …   Universalium

• seed plant — /ˈsid plænt/ (say seed plant) noun a seed bearing plant; a spermatophyte …  

• seed — [sēd] n. pl. seeds or seed [ME sede < OE sæd, akin to Ger saat < IE base * sē(i) , to cast, let fall > L serere, to sow, plant, sator, sower, semen, seed] 1. the part of a flowering plant that typically contains the embryo with its… …   English World dictionary

• seed leaf — noun embryonic leaf in seed bearing plants • Syn: ↑cotyledon • Hypernyms: ↑cataphyll * * * noun : cotyledon 2 * * * Bot. a cotyledon. [1685 95] * * * seed leaf …   Useful english dictionary

• seed 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.… …   Universalium

• Plant physiology — is a subdiscipline of botany concerned with the function, or physiology, of plants.Salisbury, Frank B. Cleon W. Ross, 1992. Plant physiology , 4th ed. (Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing). ISBN 0 534 15162 0] Closely related fields include …   Wikipedia

• seed plant — n. any plant bearing seeds, as an angiosperm or a gymnosperm …   English World dictionary

• Plant cell — Plant cells are eukaryotic cells that differ in several key respects from the cells of other eukaryotic organisms. Their distinctive features include: * A large central vacuole, a sap filled volume enclosed by a membrane known as the tonoplast JA …   Wikipedia

• plant — plantable, adj. plantless, adj. plantlike, adj. /plant, plahnt/, n. 1. any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that… …   Universalium