What is "cleistogamous"

Cleistogamic \Cleis`to*gam"ic\, Cleistogamous \Cleis*tog"a*mous\a. [Gr. ? closed (fr. ? to shut) + ga`mos marriage.] (Bot.) Having, beside the usual flowers, other minute, closed flowers, without petals or with minute petals; -- said of certain species of plants which possess flowers of two or more kinds, the closed ones being so constituted as to insure self-fertilization.
--Darwin.

a. (context botany English) Pertaining to cleistogamy. alt. (context botany English) Pertaining to cleistogamy.

adj. exhibiting or relating to cleistogamy [syn: cleistogamic]