angiospermous
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of angiospermous
First recorded in 1725–35; angiosperm + -ous
Example Sentences
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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.
From Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward
The plant yielding the alkaloid, Lycopodium complanatum, belongs to the group of angiospermous cryptogams.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 by Various
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
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
Darwin was immensely impressed with the outburst on the world of a fully fledged angiospermous vegetation.
From Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward
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