phanerogam
noun
any of the Phanerogamia, a former primary division of plants comprising those having reproductive organs; a flowering plant or seed plant (opposed to cryptogam).
phanerogamous
-
a word derived from
phanerogam.
Example Sentences
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The Mosaic account, as we read it in our English Bibles, seems to be limited to phanerogamous plants— grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit-tree yielding fruit.
From Story of Creation as Told By Theology and By Science by T. S. (Thomas Suter) Ackland
The matured seed, with embryo ready to germinate and reproduce the kind, completes the cycle of the vegetable life in a phanerogamous plant, the account of which began with the seed and seedling.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
They were covered with a great abundance of lichens, and the plains between them yielded to Dr. Kjellman the following phanerogamous plants: Cineraria frigida RICHARDS.
From The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II by Alexander Leslie
Although the lower grades are difficult, and need special books and good microscopes for their study, the higher orders, such as Ferns, may be determined almost as readily as phanerogamous plants.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
There are, at nearly the lowest computation, as many as one hundred thousand species of phanerogamous plants, and the cryptogamous species are thought to be still more numerous.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Asa Gray
