Associations to the word «Pteridophyte»

Wiktionary

PTERIDOPHYTE, noun. Any plant of the division Pteridophyta, of simple vascular plants that reproduce via spores rather than seeds and that alternate generations of diploid (sporophyte) and haploid (gametophyte or prothallus) forms, the diploid generally being larger and more conspicuous.

Dictionary definition

PTERIDOPHYTE, noun. Plants having vascular tissue and reproducing by spores.

Wise words

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