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

Example Sentences

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.

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The plant yielding the alkaloid, Lycopodium complanatum, belongs to the group of angiospermous cryptogams.

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

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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.

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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.

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