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Plants having vascular tissue and reproducing by spores
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pteridophyte
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pteridophyta \Pter`i*doph"y*ta\, n. pl. [NL., from Gr. ?, ?, a fern + ? a plant.] (Bot.) A class of flowerless plants, embracing ferns, horsetails, club mosses, quillworts, and other like plants. See the Note under Cryptogamia . -- Pter"i*do*phyte` , n. ...
Wikipedia
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Pteridophytes or Pteridophyta , in the broad interpretation of the term (or sensu lato ), are vascular plants (plants with xylem and phloem ) that reproduce and disperse via spores . Because they produce neither flowers nor seeds , they are referred to ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 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 ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. plants having vascular tissue and reproducing by spores [syn: nonflowering plant ]
Usage examples of pteridophyte.
The beings multiplied by means of spores - like vegetable pteridophytes, as Lake had suspected - but, owing to their prodigious toughness and longevity, and consequent lack of replacement needs, they did not encourage the large-scale development of new prothallia except when they had new regions to colonize.
The beings multiplied by means of spores--like vegetable pteridophytes, as Lake had suspected--but, owing to their prodigious toughness and longevity, and consequent lack of replacement needs, they did not encourage the large-scale development of new prothallia except when they had new regions to colonize.