Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A primary division or series of plants, comprising those which have their organs of reproduction developed and distinctly apparent —that is, plants having true flowers containing stamens and pistils; flowering plants.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Bot.) That one of the two primary divisions of the vegetable kingdom which contains the phanerogamic, or flowering, plants.
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Examples
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Investigations carried out on more than 200 different plants, both phanerogamia and cryptogamia, showed that the chlorophyll was the same in all the kinds so far examined.
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He published at Paris numerous botanical works, the first appearing in 1845; he first wrote on the phanerogamia, as for instance, on the leguminosæ of South America, then on the cryptogamia, and especially on the fungi.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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Investigations into the numerical relation existing in different districts of the earth between each one of the large families to the whole mass of phanerogamia -- p. 346-351.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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"While the phanerogamia, or flowering plants, depend on the air almost entirely for their supply of carbon, and are busy during the day in restoring to it the oxygen that has been removed by animals, many of the inferior cryptogamia, as the fungi and parasitic plants, obtain their nourishment from material that has already been organized.
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