Gymnosperm

Description

A plant, such as a cone-bearing evergreen tree, whose seeds are not enclosed in an ovary. Other plants are called angiosperms.

Synonyms and Related Terms

gymnosperme (Fr.); Gimnosperma (Esp.); gimnospérmica (Port.); gimnosperma (It.)

Authority

• Random House, Webster's Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language, Grammercy Book, New York, 1997

• The American Heritage Dictionary or Encarta, via Microsoft Bookshelf 98, Microsoft Corp., 1998

• Dictionary of Building Preservation, Ward Bucher, ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York City, 1996

• The Dictionary of Paper, American Paper Institute, New York, Fourth Edition, 1980