Conifers (like pines, redwoods, and fir), gingkos, seed ferns, cycadeoids, and cycads are gymnosperms. Hope this is helpful! Gymnosperms (meaning naked seeds) are seed-bearing plants that don't produce flowers, instead they have male and female reproductive organs mostly in the form of cones. Their microsporophylls release pollen into the air to make available to the ovule, in the megasporophylls causing fertilization.
Layman derived from the two existing words âlayâ (from the Old French âlaiâ, meaning âsecularâ) and âmanâ, hence the ânon-clericâ meaning. The term layman popped up around the 15th century and within about 100 years the term laywoman also became common.
the true origin is uncertain the word picnic did not originate as an abbreviation of pick a nigger a phrase falsely claimed to have been used by white families at community lynchings in the 19th century picnic comes from 17th century french piquenique which is of uncertain originhe word crap did not originate as a back formation of british plumber thomas crapper s surname nor does his name originate from the word crap although the surname may have helped popularize the word the surname crapper is a variant of cropper which originally referred to someone who harvested crops