Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having manifest flowers; phanerogamous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having true flowers with with distinct floral organs; flowering.
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- adjective botany Having
true flowers with withdistinct floral organs ;flowering .
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Examples
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It is to the animal and vegetable coral the sea owes its arborescent and floriform scenery, the counterpart of the forest and phaenogamous beauty that adorns the land.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various
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The crystal atmosphere of this land of meridional spring, the masses of tawny green in forests of the pine, and the deeper foliage of the live-oak and wild-orange, even that fire of flower in phaenogamous plants peculiar to the Peninsula, have their fellowship and counterparts in the lustrous scenery of the submarine world.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various
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The arborescent and phaenogamous forms of the coral are to be noticed.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 Various
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A flora includes flowering or phaenogamous plants as well as flowerless or cryptogamous plants, but only such as grow wild.
North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896
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At any rate, during the Glacial period there could have been no phaenogamous plants on our continent anywhere near the polar regions; and it seems a good rule to look in the first place for the cause or reason of what now is, in that which immediately preceded.
More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Charles Darwin 1845
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