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Definition of Angiosperms
1. angiosperm [n] - See also: angiosperm
Medical Definition of Angiosperms
1. Any member of the more than 250,000 species of flowering plants (division magnoliophyta) having roots, stems, leaves, and well-developed conductive tissues (xylem and phloem). Angiosperms are often differentiated from gymnosperms by their production of seeds within a closed chamber (the ovary). The magnoliophyta division is composed of two classes, the monocotyledons (liliopsida) and dicotyledons (magnoliopsida). (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Angiosperms
Literary usage of Angiosperms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1902)
"RECENT INVESTIGATIONS UPON THE EMBRYO SAC OF angiosperms. DOUGLAS HOUGHTON CAMPBELL.
THE development of the embryo sac of the angiosperms has engaged the ..."
2. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1918)
"INDEPENDENT EVOLUTION OF VESSELS IN GNETALES AND angiosperms WP THOMPSON (WITH
ELEVEN FIGURES) The possession of vessels by both angiosperms and Gnetales is ..."
3. Botany by Wilfred William Robbins, John Nathan Martin (1919)
"The angiosperms are the most highly evolved group of the plant kingdom, being
the most perfectly adapted to terrestrial conditions. ..."
4. Botany, with Agricultural Applications by John Nathan Martin (1920)
"CHAPTER XIX SPERMATOPHYTES (Continued) angiosperms (Seeds Enclosed) General
Characteristics. — The angiosperms are the most highly evolved group of the ..."
5. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"B. angiosperms General character. —The angiosperms represent the culmination of
the plant kingdom, and are plants not only of the highest rank, ..."
6. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1880)
"UNTIL very recently botanists believed it to be a well- established fact that
the Pollen-bodies of the angiosperms were one-celled, that when once formed as ..."
7. Strasburger's Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger, Hans Fitting (1921)
"In angiosperms, on the other hand, a union of micro- and macro- sporophylls in
the one flower, which is thus HERMAPHRODITE, and the investment of the flower ..."
8. Plant Life and Plant Uses: An Elementary Textbook, a Foundation for the by John Gaylord Coulter (1913)
"angiosperms. — As has just been stated, seeds and flowers are the two ...
Both gymnosperms and angiosperms have seeds, but only angiosperms have those ..."
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