flowering plant

noun

1. a plant that produces flowers, fruit, and seeds; angiosperm.

flowering plant

/ flou′ər-ĭng /

1. A plant that produces flowers and fruit; an angiosperm.
2. See more at angiosperm

Word History and Origins

Origin of flowering plant¹

First recorded in 1860–65

Example Sentences

The more variety of flowering plants in one area, the more likely that pollinators can find their favorite food.

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Cities had a much higher diversity of flowering plants than surrounding areas, they found.

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The findings, published January 22 in Current Biology, suggest that at least one species of Sapria has lost nearly half of the genes commonly found in other flowering plants and stolen many others directly from its hosts.

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You may be wondering what cells from zinnias—which are a small flowering plant—have to do with wood.

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Normally, flowering plants use their leaves to sense when the environmental conditions are right to flower.

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A small flowering plant in the pea family, Fabaceae, known as alfalfa.

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This makes it as ornamental as if it were a flowering plant.

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On the slimy soil no small shrub uprears its head, no flowering plant unfolds its blossom.

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The rapidity and vigour of the four months' growth from bulb to giant flowering plant is very remarkable.

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It is surprising what a tiny bit of Phlox will make a strong flowering plant in one season.

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All of them attack roots, and most confine their attentions to one particular flowering plant.

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