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FLOWERING PLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does flowering plant mean? 

FLOWERING PLANT (noun)
  The noun FLOWERING PLANT has 1 sense:

1. plants having seeds in a closed ovaryplay

  Familiarity information: FLOWERING PLANT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


FLOWERING PLANT (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Plants having seeds in a closed ovary

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

angiosperm; flowering plant

Hypernyms ("flowering plant" is a kind of...):

phanerogam; seed plant; spermatophyte (plant that reproduces by means of seeds not spores)

Meronyms (parts of "flowering plant"):

bloom; blossom; flower (reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "flowering plant"):

angiocarp (tree bearing fruit enclosed in a shell or involucre or husk)

dicot; dicotyledon; exogen; magnoliopsid (flowering plant with two cotyledons; the stem grows by deposit on its outside)

endogen; liliopsid; monocot; monocotyledon (a monocotyledonous flowering plant; the stem grows by deposits on its inside)

flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)

wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)

madderwort; rubiaceous plant (any of numerous trees or shrubs or vines of the family Rubiaceae)

Holonyms ("flowering plant" is a member of...):

Angiospermae; Anthophyta; class Angiospermae; division Anthophyta; division Magnoliophyta; Magnoliophyta (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))


 Context examples 


They dated the fossil to the Cretaceous period, roughly 99 million years ago, the same period as Tyrannosaurus rex, Triceratops, and early mammals, sharks, and flowering plants.

(Cretaceous baby snake fossil found in Myanmar, Wikinews)

A genus of nine species of flowering plants in the Family Asteraceae, all native to eastern North America.

(Echinacea, NCI Thesaurus)

Parts of the flowering plant have been used in some cultures to treat certain medical problems.

(Indian cress, NCI Dictionary)

CLE peptides are involved in cellular development and response to stress, and they are present throughout the plant kingdom, from green algae to flowering plants.

(Plant gene discovery could help reduce fertilizer pollution in waterways, National Science Foundation)

These gene families are often associated with the stress-response in flowering plants, providing increased protection against biotic or abiotic stresses caused by chewing insects, pathogens and nutrient or light stress.

(Ancient defence strategy continues to protect plants from pathogens, University of Cambridge)

More than 90 percent of flowering plant species combine male and female characteristics in one plant.

(Striped maple trees often change mating types, with females more likely to die, National Science Foundation)

A herbal remedy derived from the root of the perennial flowering plant Caulophyllum thalictroides grown in the eastern North America.

(Blue Cohosh Root, NCI Thesaurus)

Here and there were flowering plants, unknown to me; here and there I saw snakes, and one raised his head from a ledge of rock and hissed at me with a noise not unlike the spinning of a top. Little did I suppose that he was a deadly enemy and that the noise was the famous rattle.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Our current understanding of how plants successfully defend against disease-causing pathogens mainly originates from studying economically important crop plants and a small number of closely-related flowering plant model systems.

(Ancient defence strategy continues to protect plants from pathogens, University of Cambridge)

Researchers from the Sainsbury Laboratory at the University of Cambridge compared how two distantly related plants – a common liverwort (Marchantia polymorpha) and a flowering plant, wild tobacco (Nicotiana benthamiana) – defend themselves against an aggressive pathogen (Phytophthora palmivora).

(Ancient defence strategy continues to protect plants from pathogens, University of Cambridge)



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