'Flowering plants' definitions:

Definition of 'Flowering plants'

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  • Flowering \Flow"er*ing\, a. (Bot.) Having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with many names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood; flowering almond, etc. [1913 Webster]
  • Flowering fern, a genus of showy ferns (Osmunda), with conspicuous bivalvular sporangia. They usually grow in wet places.
  • Flowering plants, plants which have stamens and pistils, and produce true seeds; phenogamous plants; -- distinguished from flowerless plants.
  • Flowering rush, a European rushlike plant ({Butomus umbellatus}), with an umbel of rosy blossoms. [1913 Webster]

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