complete flower
Americannoun
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A flower having all four floral parts: sepals, petals, stamens, and carpels.
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Compare incomplete flower See also perfect flower
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Figure 14.25 This image depicts the structure of a perfect and complete flower.
From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013
The flowers of the Cherry or Apple will show the four kinds of organs that belong to a complete flower.
From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)
In Don Giovanni Mozart gave us his richest and most complete flower of operatic work.
From Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Kellogg, Clara Louise
The complete flower is the lowest and the tendency for imperfection is in the upper flowers.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
The fourth glume is a little longer than the third, lanceolate, acuminate, with infolded margins 5- or 6-nerved, paleate and enclosing a complete flower.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
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