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FLOWERING PLANT

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Plants having seeds in a closed ovary

Synonyms:

angiosperm; flowering plant

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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))

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 Context examples: 

Our research has uncovered a common set of pathogen-responsive genes shared in early-divergent land plants and more evolutionarily young flowering plants, which are all likely to have been critical for the expansion of plants onto land.

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