Definition of Anthophyta

1. Noun. Comprising flowering plants that produce seeds enclosed in an ovary; in some systems considered a class (Angiospermae) and in others a division (Magnoliophyta or Anthophyta).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Anthophyta

Anthocerotaceae
Anthocerotales
Anthomyia
Anthomyia canicularis
Anthonomus
Anthonomus grandis
Anthony
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Anthony Comstock
Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Nolan panel
Anthony Trollope
Anthony Vandyke
Anthony Wayne
Anthophyta
Anthrenus scrophulariae
Anthriscus
Anthriscus cereifolium
Anthriscus sylvestris
Anthropocene
Anthropos
Anthurium andraeanum
Anthurium scherzerianum
Anthus
Anthus pratensis
Anthyllis
Anthyllis barba-jovis
Anthyllis vulneraria
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Literary usage of Anthophyta

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Essentials of College Botany by Charles Edwin Bessey, Ernst Athearn Bessey (1914)
"anthophyta FLOWERING PLANTS 510. In this highest phylum we have the culmination of the repeated structural ... The anthophyta probably were derived from the ..."

2. The Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science by Iowa Academy of Science (1895)
"Preliminary Cat. of anthophyta and Pteri- ... New York City: Within one hundred miles of New York city, (Preliminary Catalogue of the anthophyta and Pteri- ..."

3. Illustriertes Handbuch der Laubholzkunde: Charakteristik der in Mitteleuropa by Camillo Karl Schneider (1906)
"... Abteilung: anthophyta, Blütenpflanzen. A. BRAUN, in Aschers. Fl. Brand. ... In der Wiederaufnahme des kurzen und treffenden Namens anthophyta lolge ich ..."

4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1910)
"... 450 anthophyta (Flowering Plants) ....110000 About eighteen years ago Saccardo made some rather careful estimates of the numbers of species of plants, ..."

5. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1896)
"Professor Bessey had abandoned the term "anthophyta," as but little more appropriate than ..."

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