angiospermous

American  

[an-jee-oh-spur-muhs] / ˌæn dʒi oʊˈspɜr məs /

adjective

1. of or relating to an angiosperm; having enclosed seeds.

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Etymology

Origin of angiospermous

First recorded in 1725–35; angiosperm + -ous

Example Sentences

Remembering that Araucaria, unlike Banksia, belongs to the earlier Jurassic not to the angiospermous flora, this view is a germinal idea of the widest generality.

From Darwin and Modern Science by Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)

Its predominant life features are the culmination and the beginning of the decline of reptiles, amphibians, cephalopod mollusks, and cycads, and the advent of marsupial mammals, birds, teleost fishes, and angiospermous plants.

From The Elements of Geology by Norton, William Harmon

The plant yielding the alkaloid, Lycopodium complanatum, belongs to the group of angiospermous cryptogams.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 by Various

As regards the descendants of angiospermous plants, the same laws of heredity hold good as for other sexually differentiated organisms; we may, therefore, extend to the latter what the Angiosperms so clearly teach us.

From Darwin and Modern Science by Seward, A. C. (Albert Charles)

And it is not till Cainozoic times that we have the endogenous grasses and palms and angiospermous exogens.

From Creation and Its Records by Baden-Powell, Baden Henry