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CLEISTOGAMY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cleistogamy mean?
• CLEISTOGAMY (noun)
The noun CLEISTOGAMY has 1 sense:
1. the production of small nonopening self-pollinating flowers
Familiarity information: CLEISTOGAMY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The production of small nonopening self-pollinating flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Hypernyms ("cleistogamy" is a kind of...):
self-pollination (fertilization by transfer of pollen from the anthers to the stigma of the same flower)
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