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NONFLOWERING PLANT

Dictionary entry overview: What does nonflowering plant mean?

• NONFLOWERING PLANT (noun)
The noun NONFLOWERING PLANT has 1 sense:

1. plants having vascular tissue and reproducing by spores

Familiarity information: NONFLOWERING PLANT used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• NONFLOWERING PLANT (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Plants having vascular tissue and reproducing by spores

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

nonflowering plant; pteridophyte

Hypernyms ("nonflowering plant" is a kind of...):

tracheophyte; vascular plant (green plant having a vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nonflowering plant"):

fern (any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores)

fern ally (pteridophytes of other classes than Filicopsida)

Holonyms ("nonflowering plant" is a member of...):

division Pteridophyta; Pteridophyta (containing all the vascular plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, horsetails, club mosses, and whisk ferns; in some classifications considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta)

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