seed plant

Questions about seed plant

What does seed plant mean?

seed plant means "plant that reproduces by means of seeds not spores".

What is another word for seed plant?

Close synonyms include spermatophyte, phanerogam. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is seed plant a common word?

seed plant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.