Phanerogam

Quick meaning: Phanerogam is a noun meaning (botany) Any plant that produces seeds (rather than spores).

Meaning

(botany) Any plant that produces seeds (rather than spores).

Example Sentences

Generally speaking, the ranges of most cryptogams are geographically broader than those of phanerogams, and many more species are widely disjunct over the world.

Among phanerogams (seed plants), only two orders of gymnosperms, the Cycadales and the Ginkgoales, have ciliated motile sperm cells; all others (higher gymnosperms and angiosperms) have nonmotile sperm cells or sperm nuclei.

The stomach contents of the Selerikanka horse contained 116 taxa: 96 phanerogams, 20 cryptogams. Among the phanerogams were 12 tree species, 14 species of shrubs and dwarf-shrubs, as well as 72 species of herbs and very small dwarf-shrubs.

Word Forms

• phanerogams

Synonyms for phanerogam

Depending on context, synonyms include spermatophyte.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include spermatophyte, phenogam, phaenogam, spermophyte, gymnosperm, spermaphyte.

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