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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).
Generic synonyms: Class
Group relationships: Division Spermatophyta, Spermatophyta
Member holonyms: Angiosperm, Flowering Plant, Class Dicotyledonae, Class Dicotyledones, Class Magnoliopsida, Dicotyledonae, Dicotyledones, Magnoliopsida, Class Liliopsida, Class Monocotyledonae, Class Monocotyledones, Liliopsida, Monocotyledonae, Monocotyledones, Angiospermous Tree, Flowering Tree, Flowering Shrub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Anthophyta
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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