'Cleistogamous' definitions:
Definition of 'cleistogamous'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Exhibiting or relating to cleistogamy [syn: cleistogamous, cleistogamic]
Definition of 'Cleistogamous'
From: GCIDE
- Cleistogamic \Cleis`to*gam"ic\, Cleistogamous \Cleis*tog"a*mous\a. [Gr. ? closed (fr. ? to shut) + ga`mos marriage.] (Bot.) 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. --Darwin. [1913 Webster]