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progymnosperm

Any of certain plants of the Devonian period that show various characteristics apparently intermediate between nonseed-bearing and seed-bearing vascular plants. They have heterosporous reproduction, and certain anatomical features such as woody fibres in the cortex and secondary phloem, that are also found in the early gymnosperms.

 
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