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.
1 It is an ironic phrase. 2  The Irish have been, and are a spectacularly unlucky race. 3  The luck of the Irish is BAD luck, as any reading of Irish history will document. Some trace the origin of the phrase to the US where, during the exploration for gold in the West, there were a high number of Irish people who got lucky, and found their pot o' gold in the gold fields of California, or were equally prosperous in silver mining. 2  Luck of the Irish does owe its origin to the U.S.A..