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- proper noun botany The group of
seed plants , whoseseeds are not enclosed in anovary
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Angiospermae by Paul Hermann in 1690, as the name of that one of his primary divisions of the plant kingdom, which included flowering plants possessing seeds enclosed in capsules, in contradistinction to his Gymnospermae, or flowering plants with achenial or schizo-carpic fruits -- the whole fruit or each of its pieces being here regarded as
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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Vascular Plants of the Hengduan Mountains, Vol. 1: Pteridophyta, Gymnospermae, Dicotyledoneae (Saururacea to Cornaceae).
Biological diversity in the mountains of Southwest China 2008
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Flora of Japan, Vol. I: Pteridophyta and Gymnospermae.
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