Example Sentences

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“Our population prefers flowering trees to nonflowering trees,” she says.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2024

Cycads — nonflowering, unshowy ambassadors of a more mysterious, ancient world — are not the most eye-catching specimens at the garden.

From New York Times • May 25, 2022

Next, the researchers moved out of the laboratory to see whether bumblebees would continue to damage nonflowering plants near their nest even if blooming plants were available farther away.

From Scientific American • May 21, 2020

About 140 million years ago, at the beginning of the Cretaceous era, a new type of plant evolved from one of the seed-bearing, nonflowering gymnosperms—mostly conifers—that covered much of the landscape.

From Slate • Jun. 11, 2014

Those there were had large nonflowering stalks, with big barbaric leaves.

From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles