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angiosperm

/ˈæn.d͡ʒi.əˌspɝm/

angiosperm noun: any plant of the clade Angiosperms, characterized by having ovules enclosed in an ovary; a flowering plant.

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Noun

angiosperm (plural angiosperms)

  1. Any plant of the clade Angiosperms, characterized by having ovules enclosed in an ovary; a flowering plant.
    • As with the Lejeuneaceae, this pattern of massive speciation appears to be correlated with the Cretaceous explosion of the angiosperms and the simultaneous creation of a host of new microenvironments, differing in humidity, light intensity, texture, etc.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, pages 3-4
    • The notion of magnoliaceans as the most primitive living angiosperms, justified or not, does not mean that all their characters, including multilacunar nodal anatomy and the lack of tannins, are primary.1997, Valentin A. Krassilov, Angiosperm Origins: Morphological and Ecological Aspects, page 134

angiosperm meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Telugu

angiosperm in Hindi

member of plant group
आवृतबीज āvŕtbīj, आवृतबीजी āvŕtbījī

angiosperm in Tamil

வித்துமூடி, மூடிய விதைப்பயிர்கள்

angiosperm in Urdu

بَند تُخَم پودا, مَلفُوفِ تُخَم

angiosperm in Telugu

member of plant group
ఆవృతబీజము āvr̥tabījamu
More languagesFewer languages
angiosperm in Persian
نهنجدانگان nahanj-dânegân
angiosperm in Vietnamese
cây hạt kín

Examples of angiosperm in a sentence

  • Dicotyledons and monocotyledons together make up the flowering plants, the angiosperms.
  • A magnolia is a basal angiosperm.
  • Polyploidy and hybridisation are important evolutionary forces shaping plant genomes and underlying the huge angiosperm diversity.

All 13 example sentences with angiosperm

Forms of angiosperm

pluralangiosperms

Origin of angiosperm

From Ancient Greek ἀγγεῖον (angeîon, “receptacle”) + σπέρμα (spérma, “seed”), equivalent to angio- + sperm.

Words formed from angiosperm

Questions about angiosperm

What does angiosperm mean?
Angiosperm means any plant of the clade Angiosperms, characterized by having ovules enclosed in an ovary; a flowering plant.
What is angiosperm in Hindi?
Angiosperm in Hindi is आवृतबीज (āvŕtbīj), आवृतबीजी (āvŕtbījī). See Angiosperm meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is angiosperm?
Angiosperm is a noun.
How do you pronounce angiosperm?
Angiosperm is pronounced /ˈæn.d͡ʒi.əˌspɝm/ (US).
What is the plural of angiosperm?
The plural of angiosperm is angiosperms.

Words near angiosperm in the dictionary

  1. angiosomes
  2. angiosonography
  3. angiospasm
  4. angiospasms
  5. angiospastic
  6. angiosperm
  7. angiospermal
  8. angiospermatous
  9. angiospermic
  10. angiospermous
  11. angiosperms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: angiosperm (page history and authors); angiosperm (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); angiosperm (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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