pteridophyte in English
noun
1
a member of the Pteridophyta, a division of plants including the ferns and their allies (horsetails, club mosses).
H. Potonié first hypothesized the existence of a group of such transitional plants between pteridophytes and seed plants in 1899, but it is now known that ferns themselves are not the direct ancestors of seed plants.
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1. A pteridophyte is a vascular plant (with xylem and phloem) that disperses spores.