seed-bearing plants
- plural of seed-bearing plant.
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
At the same time, the anatomical structure, where it is open to investigation, confirms the suggestion given by the habit, and shows that these early seed-bearing plants had a real affinity with Ferns.
From Darwin and Modern Science by Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)
