Wiktionary
n. Any plant that produces flowers and fruit; an angiosperm.
WordNet
n. plants having seeds in a closed ovary [syn: angiosperm]
Wikipedia
The flowering plants (angiosperms), also known as Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta, are the most diverse group of land plants, with 416 families, approx. 13,164 known genera and a total of ca 295,383 known species (Christenhusz & Byng 2016 ). Like gymnosperms, angiosperms are seed-producing plants; they are distinguished from gymnosperms by characteristics including flowers, endosperm within the seeds, and the production of fruits that contain the seeds. Etymologically, angiosperm means a plant that produces seeds within an enclosure, in other words, a fruiting plant. The term "angiosperm" comes from the Greek composite word (angeion-, "case" or "casing", and sperma, "seed") meaning "enclosed seeds", after the enclosed condition of the seeds.
The ancestors of flowering plants diverged from gymnosperms in the Triassic Period, during the range 245 to 202 million years ago (mya), and the first flowering plants are known from 160 mya. They diversified extensively during the Lower Cretaceous, became widespread by 120 mya, and replaced conifers as the dominant trees during 100 to 60 mya.
Usage examples of "flowering plant".
Many feel that large shade leaves draw energy from the flowering plant, and therefore the flowering clusters will be smaller.
A tincture is also made from the fresh flowering plant of Gentiana quinqueflora (Five-flowered Gentian) and used in homoeopathy as a tonic and stomachic, and in intermittent fevers.
The homoeopathic tincture is made from the whole fresh flowering plant.
No tree rose from the nutrient-poor soil, no flowering plant pushed up through the sharp-edged igneous rock.
The mound in front of her was certainly thickly covered with the all-enveloping green and white flowering plant.
The two met in the town of Caserta, where every flowering plant was in bud, and the plane trees lining the long, broad avenue leading to the old Royal Palace were already in brilliant green leaf.
The trees and shrubbery were slowly giving way to a proliferation of a single large flowering plant with expansive golden-yellow blossoms.
A tall flowering plant staggered toward them, thin, tendril-like arms outstretched.