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Noun: progymnosperm
  1. An ancestral fossil type from which modern gymnosperms are thought to have derived
    "Archaeopteris is considered a progymnosperm that lived during the Devonian period"

Derived forms: progymnosperms

Type of: gymnosperm

Encyclopedia: Progymnosperm