flowerless
having or producing no flowers.
Botany. having no true seeds; cryptogamic.
Origin of flowerless
1Other words from flowerless
- flow·er·less·ness, noun
Words Nearby flowerless
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How to use flowerless in a sentence
The earliest forms of which we have any knowledge were flowerless plants, which produced minute spores instead of seeds.
Gospel Philosophy | J. H. WardThere are about 110,000 species of flowering plants and nearly as many flowerless plants.
A Civic Biology | George William HunterWriting of these flowerless beauties, I am tempted to exclaim again, "Happy the humble!"
A Rambler's lease | Bradford TorreyIts stem is thin but hard, and much branched, the numerous flowerless branches usually forming a dense tuft close to the ground.
Field and Woodland Plants | William S. FurneauxThe jubilant cry from the flowering thorn to the flowerless willow, "smite, smite, smite."
Foe-Farrell | Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
British Dictionary definitions for flowerless
/ (ˈflaʊəlɪs) /
designating any plant that does not produce seeds: See cryptogam
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