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- adjective biology Of a plant, not
flowering ; reproducing by means other thanpollination fromflowers .
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- adjective without flower or bloom and not producing seeds
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Examples
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"nonflowering," meaning that there should be little chance of accidental contamination of nearby crops.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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New Caledonia has a remarkable diversity of gymnosperms (primitive nonflowering plants that include conifers), with forty-four species (forty-three of which are endemic) out of fifteen genera (at least three of which are endemic).
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The spores of nonflowering plants are analogous to the seeds of flowering plants.
spore 2002
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It changes tall, late, or nonflowering varieties that produce well only in the tropics into short, early-maturing forms that can be used in many parts of the world, including the temperate zones.
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It is nonflowering, nonseeding (or at least nonspreading), and must be replicated by vegetative propagation.
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Scattered about were pale abstract watercolors and several nonflowering potted plants.
POSTMORTEM Patricia Cornwell 1990
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Scattered about were pale abstract watercolors and several nonflowering potted plants.
POSTMORTEM Patricia Cornwell 1990
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Scattered about were pale abstract watercolors and several nonflowering potted plants.
POSTMORTEM Patricia Cornwell 1990
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Scattered about were pale abstract watercolors and several nonflowering potted plants.
POSTMORTEM Patricia Cornwell 1990
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A wind swept our hillock from the direction of its far side, where nasty-looking, spiked plants of a nonflowering variety grew.
Sign of Chaos Zelazny, Roger 1987
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