Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A seed plant having ovules enclosed in an ovary and exhibiting double fertilization; a flowering plant.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plant whose seeds are contained in a protecting seed-vessel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A plant which has its seeds inclosed in a pericarp. Contrasted with
gymnosperm .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany A member of the
plant group characterized by havingovules enclosed in anovary ; theangiosperms orflowering plants: theAngiospermae ,Magnoliophyta ,Magnoliopsida , etc. - adjective botany pertaining to the
angiosperms .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun plants having seeds in a closed ovary
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek αγγείον ("receptacle") + σπέρμα ("seed")
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