Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, same as
phanerogam . SeePhanerogania and *Spermatophyta.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A flowerless plant which forms a true fruit as the result of fertilization, as the red seaweeds, the
Ascomycetes , etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany A
flowerless plant which forms a truefruit as the result offertilization .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek fruit + plant.
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