Angiospermous

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having seeds inclosed in a seed-vessel, as the poppy, the rose, and most flowering plants: opposed to gymnospermous, or naked-seeded. Equivalent forms are angiospermal and angiospermatous.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Having seeds inclosed in a pod or other pericarp.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Having seeds enclosed in a pod or other pericarp.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. of or related to or characteristic of plants that are angiosperms
  • Word Usage
    "The plant yielding the alkaloid, _Lycopodium complanatum_, belongs to the group of angiospermous cryptogams."