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

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

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

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-Powell, Baden Henry

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)

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)