angiospermous
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of angiospermous
First recorded in 1725–35; angiosperm + -ous
Example Sentences
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Darwin was immensely impressed with the outburst on the world of a fully fledged angiospermous vegetation.
From Darwin and Modern Science by Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)
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
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 Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)
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
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 Norton, William Harmon
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