Seed-bearing plants such as conifers, cycads, and ginkgos whose seeds are not enclosed in a protective fruit or ovary.
From Greek 'gymnos' (naked) and 'sperma' (seed). The term was coined by botanists to distinguish these plants from angiosperms, which have enclosed seeds.
Gymnosperms are ancient plant superstars—conifers have been around for over 300 million years and still dominate entire forests! They're the reason we have evergreen trees.
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