Gymnospermae

Translingual

Etymology

New Latin, feminine plural of gymnospermus (“having naked seeds”)

Proper noun

Gymnospermae

(botany) The group of seed plants, whose seeds are not enclosed in an ovary
1. A taxonomic clade within the clade spermatophytes.
2. A taxonomic superclass within the subphylum Spermatophytina.

Hypernyms

(superclass): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina - subphylum

Hyponyms

(plants with seeds not enclosed in an ovary): Coniferae - class
- Cycadidae, Ginkgoidae, Gnetidae, Pinidae - subclasses
(superclass): Cycadopsida, Ginkgoopsida, Gnetopsida, Pinopsida - classes
- Cycadidae, Ginkgoidae, Gnetidae, Pinidae - subclasses
  - Cycadales, Ginkgoales, Gnetales, Pinales - orders

Derived terms

gymnosperms

References

Gymnosperm on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Plantae (L.) on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Category:Gymnosperms on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Gymnospermae at the Tree of Life Web Project
Ruggiero MA, Gordon DP, Orrell TM, Bailly N, Bourgoin T, Brusca RC, et al. (2015) A Higher Level Classification of All Living Organisms. PLoS ONE 10(4): e0119248. PMID 25923521, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119248

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