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Definition of Cleistogamic
1. Adjective. Exhibiting or relating to cleistogamy.
Definition of Cleistogamic
1. a. Having, beside the usual flowers, other minute, closed flowers, without petals or with minute petals; -- said of certain species of plants which possess flowers of two or more kinds, the closed ones being so constituted as to insure self-fertilization.
Definition of Cleistogamic
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cleistogamic
Literary usage of Cleistogamic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Charles Darwin's Works by Charles Darwin (1896)
"General character of cleistogamic flowers—List of the genera producing such
flowers, and their distribution in the vegetable series—Viola, description of ..."
2. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"What is, however, still more significant, is that the cleistogamic flowers ...
Mr. Darwin, however, has shown that cleistogamic flowers do not invalidate ..."
3. Contributions from the Botanical Laboratory of the University of Pennsylvania by University of Pennsylvania Botanical Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, Botanical Laboratory (1904)
"The cleistogamic ones produce seed abundantly. 3. The five sepals are present in
all types of flower. Only one petal (the anterior) is found in the ..."
4. The Ottawa Naturalist by Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club (1903)
"The cleistogamic flowers are in this species, V. sagittata, ... And in looking
over the several species in which cleistogamic flowers occur, we notice that ..."
5. Darwinism and Politics: With Two Additional Essays on Human Evolution by David George Ritchie (1901)
"Thus, in our common dog-violet the perfect flowers rarely produce seed, while
the rudimentary cleistogamic flowers do so in abundance. ..."
6. The Sagacity & Morality of Plants: A Sketch of the Life & Conduct of the by John Ellor Taylor (1884)
"By far the greater number have to be content with less expenditure, and some are
even nowadays slowly falling into arrears, until the cleistogamic habit ..."
7. The Fertilisation of Flowers by Hermann Müller, D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson, Charles Darwin (1883)
"Monochoria, L, has cleistogamic flowers, according to Kuhn (399)- OKD. ...
Weinmann has observed subterranean cleistogamic flowers in Commelina ..."
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