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Definition of Phanerogam
1. Noun. Plant that reproduces by means of seeds not spores.
Specialized synonyms: Seedling, Balsam, Gymnosperm, Angiosperm, Flowering Plant
Generic synonyms: Tracheophyte, Vascular Plant
Definition of Phanerogam
1. Noun. (botany) Any plant that produces seeds (rather than spores) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Phanerogam
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Medical Definition of Phanerogam
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Phanerogam
Literary usage of Phanerogam
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"Q, Three segments of a " pitted " vessel of phanerogam. ... of phanerogam, with
almost obliterated cavity and narrow slit-like oblique pits. ..."
2. A Manual of Palæontology, for the Use of Students: For the Use of Students by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"phanerogam^E.—The phanerogams, which include the whole of the remaining groups
of plants, are characterised by the production of a seed, and the consequent ..."
3. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"... phanerogam, is usually separated from the place of its formation, and having
undergone a peculiar modification of structure by which it acquires active ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1901)
"... phanerogam both in structural detail and with regard to their course out into
the leaf. The following observations made upon the stems of E. Telma- ..."
5. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physiological by Julius Sachs (1882)
"The general result of these observations is that the phanerogam, with its
pollen-grains and its embryo-sacs, is equivalent to the spore-producing (asexual) ..."
6. A Manual of Palaeontology for the Use of Students with a General by Henry Alleyne Nicholson, Richard Lydekker (1889)
"phanerogams are further characterised by the metamorphosis and differentiation
of homo- 1 It is thus evident that the phanerogam with its ..."