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Definition of Cleistogamous
1. Adjective. Exhibiting or relating to cleistogamy.
Definition of Cleistogamous
1. Adjective. (botany) Pertaining to cleistogamy. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cleistogamous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Cleistogamous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Cleistogamous
Literary usage of Cleistogamous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1905)
"V. pedata is in a class by itself, having no bearded petals and no known
cleistogamous flowers. The other species I would arrange according to their natural ..."
2. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"On the other hand, there were a number of cleistogamous flowers concealed under
the fallen leaves and partially buried in the earth, so that it looked very ..."
3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"cleistogamous flowers ovoid on short prostrate peduncles ; their capsules mostly
... cleistogamous flowers on erect peduncles, their capsules green. ..."
4. Flora of Pennsylvania by Thomas Conrad Porter, John Kunkel Small (1903)
"Peduncles of the cleistogamous flowers horizontal or decumbent : species of
woodlands. ... Corolla deep blue : cleistogamous flowers on deflexed peduncles. ..."
5. Botany: An Elementary Text for Schools by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1901)
"Only a few plants bear cleistogamous flowers. Hog- peanut, common blue violet,
fringed win- ... 215 shows a cleistogamous flower of the hog- peanut at a. ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1884)
"Aprils. — Mr. Arthur Hollick read a paper upon autumn forms of the genus Viola.
While engaged in studying the cleistogamous flowers of V. ..."
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