seed-bearing plant
noun
seed-bearing plants
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pluralof seed-bearing plant.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Recent studies estimate ferns split from seed-bearing plants about 400 million years ago.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 23, 2022
If they migrate to where insects and seed-bearing plants have not been reestablished, they’ll perish.
From Slate ● Feb. 26, 2022
The forest birds, like so many island-bound creatures, have succumbed to wave after wave of invasive species, including feral hogs that root up native seed-bearing plants and mosquitoes that spread an avian form of malaria.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 29, 2021
Woodland women had developed agriculture independently, by cultivating squash, sunflowers, and other seed-bearing plants as early as 1500 BCE.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
But the Mosaic account of the third day’s work evidently describes flowering and seed-bearing plants, not flowerless and seedless algæ.
From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock
