phanerogam

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phan·er·o·gam

P0233400 (făn′ər-ə-găm′, fə-nâr′ə-)n. A plant that produces seeds.

[New Latin phanerogamus : Greek phaneros, visible (from phainein, to cause to appear; see bhā- in Indo-European roots) + Greek gamos, marriage; see -gamous.]

phan′er·o·gam′ic, phan′er·og′a·mous (făn′ə-rŏg′ə-məs) adj.

phanerogam

(ˈfænərəʊˌɡæm) n (Plants) any plant of the former major division Phanerogamae, which included all seed-bearing plants. Now called spermatophyte Compare cryptogam[C19: from New Latin phanerogamus, from Greek phaneros visible +gamos marriage] ˌphaneroˈgamic, phanerogamous adj

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phanerogam - plant that reproduces by means of seeds not sporesseed plant, spermatophyteseedling - young plant or tree grown from a seedbalsam - any seed plant yielding balsamgymnosperm - plants of the class Gymnospermae having seeds not enclosed in an ovaryangiosperm, flowering plant - plants having seeds in a closed ovarytracheophyte, vascular plant - green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms

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phanerogam

phanerogam:

see cryptogamcryptogam,
in botany, term used to denote a plant that produces spores, as in algae, fungi, mosses, and ferns, but not seeds. The term cryptogam, from the Greek kryptos, meaning "hidden," and gamos,
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Phanerogam

a plant having flowers. (Phanerogams include the gymnosperms.) Phanerogams are the opposite of crypotgams, which do not have flowers. Both concepts, which were proposed by C. Linnaeus, are antiquated.

phanerogam

[′fan·ə·rə‚gam] (botany) A plant that produces seeds, for example, an angiosperm or gymnosperm.

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noun plant that reproduces by means of seeds not spores

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