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Angiosperm

noun
1.
Plants having seeds in a closed ovary.  Synonym: flowering plant.



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"Angiosperm" Quotes from Famous Books



... the central receptacle are stalked, and are intermixed with sterile scales; the latter are expanded at their outer ends, which are united to form a kind of pericarp or ovary-wall, only interrupted by the protruding micropyles of the ovules. There is thus an approach to the closed pistil of an Angiosperm, but it is evident that the ovules received the pollen directly. The whole fructification is of large size; in the case of Cycadeoidea dacotensis, one of the species investigated by Wieland, the total length, in ...
— Darwin and Modern Science • A.C. Seward and Others



Words linked to "Angiosperm" :   class Angiospermae, dicot, spermatophyte, bloom, seed plant, Anthophyta, flower, phanerogam, rubiaceous plant, wild flower, flowering plant, angiocarp, madderwort, magnoliopsid, division Anthophyta, exogen, blossom, angiospermous, Angiospermae, liliopsid, division Magnoliophyta, Magnoliophyta, dicotyledon, monocotyledon, endogen, monocot, wildflower



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