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/ˈanjēəˌspərm/,
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angiosperms, plural;
  1. A plant that has flowers and produces seeds enclosed within a carpel. The angiosperms are a large group and include herbaceous plants, shrubs, grasses, and most trees


  1. plants having seeds in a closed ovary
  2. The flowering plants (angiosperms), also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants. ...
  3. (Angiosperms) (flowering plants) a class of vascular plants, all characteristically bearing seeds within enclosing carpellary systems (eg. oaks and eucalypts).
  4. (Angiosperms) 1. a flowering plant; a plant whose egg cells are enclosed in an ovary. Opposed to a gymnosperm, a plant whose seeds are not contained in an ovary (e.g. an evergreen). From the Greek aggeion, vessel, an sperm, seed; gymnosperm from gumnos, naked.
  5. (Angiosperms) A large group of flowering plants that includes deciduous trees, therefore all hardwoods, but not pine trees.
  6. (Angiosperms) The group of plants considered most highly evolved is known as the angiosperms. This name means that the seeds, rather than being produced naked, are enclosed within the surrounding tissues of the ovary. The ovary
  7. (Angiosperms) Those plants which bear their seeds within a pericarp.
  8. (Angiosperms) Trees that bear flowers and produce their seeds inside a fruit; deciduous and rain forest trees are usually angiosperms.
  9. (angiosperms) Flowering plants. First appearing at least 110 million years ago from an unknown gymnosperm ancestor, flowering planbts have risen to dominance in most of the world's floras. ...
  10. (angiosperms) Flowering vascular plants with seeds enclosed in the ovaries (as compared to gymnosperms, such as conifers, which have "naked" seeds).
  11. A plant that has true flowers and bears its seeds in fruits. In temperate zones, many angiosperms are deciduous trees, while in tropical zones, many are evergreen trees. Examples include oaks, willows, maples and birches.
  12. Informal term for flowering plants, their seeds develop within fruit.
  13. Any class of flowering plants characterized by seeds that are fully enclosed by fruits.
  14. Any seed plant whose seeds are surrounded by the mature ovary or fruit
  15. a division of seed plants with the ovules borne in an ovary. cf. gymnosperm
  16. A flowering plant which has the capability of reproducing by seed.
  17. A flowering plant, one of the two major groups of seed plants, the other being the gymnosperms.  As you can see by comparing the numbers of angiosperms in the catalog with other groups, most plants we see are in this group. ...
  18. The group that all flowering plants belong to. They are plants that reproduce with seeds using fruits to disperse them.
  19. Any plant that is a member of the class Angiospermae, in which the seeds are enclosed in an ovary. Each member of the class is either a monocotyledon (grasses, tulips) or a dicotyledon (apple, primrose).
  20. Having seeds borne within a pericarp. For comparison, gymnosperm.
  21. a division of the plant kingdom that includes all flowering plants, i.e. vascular plants in which double fertilization occurs resulting in development of fruit containing seeds. Divided into two major groups, monocotyledons and dicotyledons
  22. Belonging to the class of plants having seeds enclosed in an overlay. Within this class, the subclass dicotyledons includes all hardwood trees.
  23. flowering plants that came after gymnosperms divided into monocots and dicots.
  24. TA seed plant that produces flowers.
  25. flowering plants; “enclosed seeds” in a flower