(an-jee-o-sperms) [Gk. angeion, vessel + sperma, seed] A flowering plant, which forms seeds inside a protective chamber called an ovary.

"plant with seeds contained in a protective vessel" (as distinguished from a gymnosperm), 1853, from Modern Latin Angiospermae, coined 1690 by German botanist Paul Hermann (1646-1695), from [..]

n. A group of plants that produce seeds enclosed within an ovary, which may mature into a fruit; flowering plants.

Informal term for flowering plants, their seeds develop within fruit. annual plant:

  A flowering plant whose seeds are housed within an ovary.

Flowering vascular plant

A plant in the Class Angiospermae, the taxonomic category encompassing all the true flowering plants, in the Division Spermatophyta

A member of a class of plants characterized by the formation of flowers and seeds in fruits.

 Informal term for flowering plants, their seeds develop within fruit.

class of plants that has the seeds enclosed in an ovary; includes flowering plants.

A flowering plant whose seeds are enclosed within an ovary (for example, an apple or a rose).

(Gk: angeion= vessel; sperma= seed) any plant producing flowers and reproducing by seeds enclosed within a carpel, including herbaceous plants, herbs, shrubs, grasses and most trees. A plant having it [..]

Flowering plant.

(Anthophyte): a plant whose ovules are enclosed in an ovary; a flowering plant.

a seed producing plant in which the ovules are enclosed in an ovary which develops into a fruit after fertilization

plant that has flowers and produces seeds enclosed in fruit.                                                                        Animalia (Animal) - [..]

[Plant groups] -- A seed-bearing plant with ovules, and hence seeds, developing within an ovary.

(n) plants having seeds in a closed ovary

a seed plant that produces flowers.

 

A flowering, seed-bearing plant in which the ovules are enclosed within the ovary.

Members of the group of vascular Plants which Bear Flowers. They are differentiated from Gymnosperms by their production of Seeds within a closed chamber (Ovary, Plant). The Angiosperms division is co [..]

flowering plant which produces seeds enclosed in fruit. It is the dominant type of plant with over 250 thousand species. Angiosperms evolved 125 million years ago, becoming the dominant plant life around 100 million years ago. Butterflies and moths are important pollinators of these plants.

<botany> A flowering, fruit-bearing plant or tree, the ovules (and therefore seeds) of these plants develop within an enclosed ovary. (12 Nov 1997)

Plant whose seeds are enclosed within an ovary. Flowering plants.

A member of a class of plants characterized by the formation of flowers and seeds in fruits.

plants that have an enclosed seed. Examples: all flowering plants, including many hardwood trees, such as maples and oaks.

Flowering plants that bear seeds that are enclosed in an ovary.

(botany) Any plant of the clade Angiosperms, characterized by having ovules enclosed in an ovary; a flowering plant. * Schuster Hepaticae V|3-4 *: As with the Lejeuneaceae, this pattern of massive [..]

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 [..]

Flowering plants that have their ovules enclosed within a specialized membrane and their seeds within a seedcoat. Compare with gymnosperm.