seed plant

American  

noun

1. a seed-bearing plant; spermatophyte.

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seed plant British  

noun

1. any plant that reproduces by means of seeds: a gymnosperm or angiosperm

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seed plant Scientific  

1. See seed-bearing plant

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Etymology

Origin of seed plant

First recorded in 1700–10

Example Sentences

The workshop includes a mini seed library of three packs of seed, plant history, care tips and tutorials in composting and seed extraction.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 31, 2023

The entire male gametophyte of a seed plant is found in a pollen grain.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2018

The fossil plant Elkinsia polymorpha, a “seed fern” from the Devonian period—about 400 million years ago—is considered the earliest seed plant known to date.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Were those naive villagers collecting every type of seed plant that they found, bringing it home, poisoning themselves on most of the species, and nourishing themselves from only a few species?

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

It is also fertile in the same products, although less abundantly than Calamian the great, but it is so overrun with rats or moles that no seed plant can live, for they destroy everything.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 21 of 55 1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Robertson, James Alexander