angiospermous

American  

[an-jee-oh-spur-muhs] / ˌæn dʒi oʊˈspɜr məs /

adjective

1. of or relating to an angiosperm; having enclosed seeds.

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Etymology

Origin of angiospermous

First recorded in 1725–35; angiosperm + -ous

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Example Sentences

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angiospermous

Remembering that Araucaria, unlike Banksia, belongs to the earlier Jurassic not to the angiospermous flora, this view is a germinal idea of the widest generality.

From Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward

It is contained in a seed-vessel formed from the ovary in the plants called angiospermous; while in gymnospermous plants, such as Coniferae and Cycadaceae, it is naked, or, in other words, has no true pericarp.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various

And it is not till Cainozoic times that we have the endogenous grasses and palms and angiospermous exogens.

From Creation and Its Records by Baden Henry Baden-Powell

As regards the descendants of angiospermous plants, the same laws of heredity hold good as for other sexually differentiated organisms; we may, therefore, extend to the latter what the Angiosperms so clearly teach us.

From Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward

Its predominant life features are the culmination and the beginning of the decline of reptiles, amphibians, cephalopod mollusks, and cycads, and the advent of marsupial mammals, birds, teleost fishes, and angiospermous plants.

From The Elements of Geology by William Harmon Norton

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