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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a member of the Spermophyta; a plant producing true seeds; a phænogam, or flowering plant. Sometimes written spermaphyte.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Any plant which produces true seeds; -- a term recently proposed to replace
phænogam .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany Any
plant which produces trueseeds .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek σπέρμα ("seed") + -phyte
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