Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having seeds inclosed in a seed-vessel, as the poppy, the rose, and most flowering plants: opposed to gymnospermous, or naked-seeded. Equivalent forms are angiospermal and angiospermatous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having seeds inclosed in a pod or other pericarp.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective botany Having
seeds enclosed in apod or otherpericarp .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or related to or characteristic of plants that are angiosperms
Etymologies
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Examples
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The plant yielding the alkaloid, _Lycopodium complanatum_, belongs to the group of angiospermous cryptogams.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 Various
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Within each class the flower-characters as the essential feature of Angiosperms supply the clue to phylogeny, but the uncertainty regarding the construction of the primitive angiospermous flower gives
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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Its predominant life features are the culmination and the beginning of the decline of reptiles, amphibians, cephalopod mollusks, and cycads, and the advent of marsupial mammals, birds, teleost fishes, and angiospermous plants.
The Elements of Geology William Harmon Norton 1900
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It is a remarkable fact, as he justly observes, that the angiospermous exogens, which comprise four-fifths of living plants -- a division to which all our native
The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836
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The number of cotyledons is so constant that they afford a character for the primary division of angiospermous plants.
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But there were still angiospermous and orpine on my original list; and the night was, indeed, "opening like a cotyledon."
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