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phanerogam

[′fan·ə·rə‚gam]
(botany)
A plant that produces seeds, for example, an angiosperm or gymnosperm.
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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Phanerogam

 

a plant having flowers. (Phanerogams include the gymnosperms.) Phanerogams are the opposite of crypotgams, which do not have flowers. Both concepts, which were proposed by C. Linnaeus, are antiquated.

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