SPERMATOPHYTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does spermatophyte mean? 

• SPERMATOPHYTE (noun)
  The noun SPERMATOPHYTE has 1 sense:

1. plant that reproduces by means of seeds not spores

  Familiarity information: SPERMATOPHYTE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPERMATOPHYTE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Plant that reproduces by means of seeds not spores

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

phanerogam; seed plant; spermatophyte

Hypernyms ("spermatophyte" 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 "spermatophyte"):

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)