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gymnosperm

In botany, any plant whose seeds are exposed, as opposed to the structurally more advanced angiosperms, where they are inside an ovary. The group includes conifers and related plants such as cycads and ginkgos, whose seeds develop in cones. Fossil gymnosperms have been found in rocks about 350 million years old.



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A: Sago palms, erroneously named since they are not palms at all but gymnosperms, are durable and adaptable plants that can easily live for more than 100 years.
A TRIO OF WELL-SITUATED FLORA by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
The text of the story itself, however was clearer in dealing with classification at a much broader level, placing "the species with the gymnosperms, the broad group that includes conifers.
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On a list of conifers compiled to give to dendrology students, I counted 121 different gymnosperms, a dozen native to this region and the rest aliens from the far reaches of the globe.
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