SEED PLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seed plant mean? 

• SEED PLANT (noun)
  The noun SEED PLANT has 1 sense:

1. plant that reproduces by means of seeds not spores

  Familiarity information: SEED PLANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEED PLANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Plant that reproduces by means of seeds not spores

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

phanerogam; seed plant; spermatophyte

Hypernyms ("seed plant" is a kind of...):

tracheophyte; vascular plant (green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "seed plant"):

seedling (young plant or tree grown from a seed)

balsam (any seed plant yielding balsam)

gymnosperm (plants of the class Gymnospermae having seeds not enclosed in an ovary)

angiosperm; flowering plant (plants having seeds in a closed ovary)

 Context examples 

A region of compressed stem tissue from which new shoots are produced, generally found near the surface of the soil where the root of a seed plant joins the stem.

(Crown, Food and Drug Administration)

The key to determining how U. mongoliensis is related to other seed plants lies in understanding its strange seed-bearing capsules.

(Paleontologists find fossil relative of Ginkgo biloba, NSF)

The non-flowering seed plants, as differentiated from angiosperms, the flowering seed plants.

(Gymnosperms, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

The flowering seed plants, as differentiated from gymnosperms, the non-flowering seed plants.

(Angiosperms, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

They verified that a total of 14,003 species of seed plant (any plant that bears seeds) exist in the Amazon forest stretching from Brazil to Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, the Guianas, and Suriname.

(Inventory revises down Amazon tree species list, SciDev.Net)