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seedling
young plant or tree grown from a seed
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balsam
any seed plant yielding balsam
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gymnosperm
plants of the class Gymnospermae having seeds not enclosed in an ovary
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angiosperm, flowering plant
plants having seeds in a closed ovary
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progymnosperm
an ancestral fossil type from which modern gymnosperms are thought to have derived
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Welwitschia mirabilis, welwitschia
curious plant of arid regions of southwestern Africa having a yard-high and yard-wide trunk like a turnip with a deep taproot and two large persistent woody straplike leaves growing from the base; living relic of a flora long disappeared; some may be 700-5000 years old
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cycad
any tropical gymnosperm of the order Cycadales; having unbranched stems with a crown of fernlike leaves
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pteridosperm, seed fern
an extinct seed-producing fernlike plant of the order Cycadofilicales (or group Pteridospermae)
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angiocarp
tree bearing fruit enclosed in a shell or involucre or husk
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dicot, dicotyledon, exogen, magnoliopsid
flowering plant with two cotyledons; the stem grows by deposit on its outside
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endogen, liliopsid, monocot, monocotyledon
a monocotyledonous flowering plant; the stem grows by deposits on its inside
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flower
a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms
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wild flower, wildflower
wild or uncultivated flowering plant
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madderwort, rubiaceous plant
any of numerous trees or shrubs or vines of the family Rubiaceae