Gymnosperms 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 â¦ release pollen into the air to make available to the ovule,  in the megasporophylls causing fertilization.
2. Luck. The word luck is Middle Dutch in origin, coming from luc, a shortening of gheluc, âhappiness, good fortune.â. Luck may have been borrowed into English in the 15th century as a gambling term.
Before the adoption of luck at the end of the Middle Ages, Old English and Middle English expressed the notion of good fortune with the word speed (Middle English spede, Old English spÄd); speed besides good fortune had the wider meaning of prosperity, profit, abundance; it is not associated with the notion of probability or chance but rather with that of fate or divine help; a bestower of success can also be called speed, as in Christ be our speed (William Robertson, Phraseologia ...