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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In botany, belonging to the Phanerogamia; flowering: as, phanerogamic or flowering plants: opposed to cryptogamic and cryptogamous.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having visible flowers containing distinct stamens and pistils; -- said of plants.

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  • adjective botany That reproduces via seeds (rather than spores)

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