gymnosperm

from Ancient Greek γυμνός (gumnós, “naked”) + σπέρμα (spérma, “seed”). By surface analysis, gymno- +‎ sperm. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Do we know when the term was coined?”)

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gymnosperm (plural gymnosperms)

1. (botany) Any plant such as a conifer whose seeds are not enclosed in an ovary.
   • 2015 October 29, Dave Taft, “The Female Ginkgo Tree’s Acrid Smell of Success”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Like cycads — their gymnosperm relatives — and ferns, the ginkgo produces motile sperm.

   • 2016 March 2, “Depositional Environment of Mio-Pliocene Siwalik Sedimentary Strata from the Darjeeling Himalayan Foothills, India: A Palynological Approach”, in PLOS ONE‎^[2], →DOI:

     The palynoassemblage is rich in angiosperm taxa (45.63%) followed by gymnosperms (0.45%), pteridophytes (18.49%) and fungal remains (23.88%).

• (plant with seed not in ovary): conifers, cycads, Ginkgo, Gnetales

• gymnospermous
• progymnosperm

• Gymnospermae
• gymnospore