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PHANEROGAM

Dictionary entry overview: What does phanerogam mean?

• PHANEROGAM (noun)
The noun PHANEROGAM has 1 sense:

1. plant that reproduces by means of seeds not spores

Familiarity information: PHANEROGAM used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• PHANEROGAM (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Plant that reproduces by means of seeds not spores

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

phanerogam; seed plant; spermatophyte

Hypernyms ("phanerogam" 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 "phanerogam"):

seedling (young plant or tree grown from a seed)

balsam (any seed plant yielding balsam)

gymnosperm (plants of the class Gymnospermae having seeds not enclosed in an ovary)

angiosperm; flowering plant (plants having seeds in a closed ovary)

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