angiospermn.
/ˈan(d)ʒɪə(ʊ)spəːm/, U.S. /ˈændʒiəˌspərm/ Botany.
Originally: any flowering plant having seeds contained in a capsule or other recognizable seed vessel (now rare). In later use: any of the flowering plants belonging to a division characterized by having ovules enclosed in an ovary or carpel. Cf. angiospermous adj.Contrasted with gymnosperm n.
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gymnosperm1838
metasperm1878
1835 J. Knowles Pronouncing & Explanatory Dict. Eng. Lang. 48/2 Angiosperm,..a plant which has its seeds inclosed in a pericarp.
1861 G. Bentham Flora Hong-Kong Introd. 23 The seed is enclosed in the pericarp in the majority of flowering plants, called therefore angiosperms.
1952 P. Mann Systematics Flowering Plants i. 13 Angiosperms have been the dominant plants ever since the Upper Cretaceous.
2011 Univ. Oxf. Bot. Garden News No. 76. 4/2 A project at the Garden is aiming to establish a more representative collection of a certain group of flowering plants, the basal angiosperms.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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