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PROGYMNOSPERM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does progymnosperm mean?
• PROGYMNOSPERM (noun)
The noun PROGYMNOSPERM has 1 sense:
1. an ancestral fossil type from which modern gymnosperms are thought to have derived
Familiarity information: PROGYMNOSPERM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An ancestral fossil type from which modern gymnosperms are thought to have derived
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("progymnosperm" is a kind of...):
gymnosperm (plants of the class Gymnospermae having seeds not enclosed in an ovary)
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