PHANEROGAMAE

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Phanerogamae mean? 

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

1. in former classification systems: one of two major plant divisions, including all seed-bearing plants; superseded by the division Spermatophyta

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHANEROGAMAE (noun)

Meaning:

In former classification systems: one of two major plant divisions, including all seed-bearing plants; superseded by the division Spermatophyta

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Phanerogamae" is a kind of...):

division ((botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum)

Holonyms ("Phanerogamae" is a member of...):

kingdom Plantae; plant kingdom; Plantae (the taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants)

Antonym:

Cryptogamia (in former classification systems: one of two major plant divisions, including all plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, mosses, algae, fungi)