| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Exhibiting or relating to cleistogamy.[Wordnet]
2. 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.[Websters] 3. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb cleistogamously.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (cleistogamously) | 1. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective cleistogamous.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "CLEISTOGAMOUS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1872. (references) |
Specialty Definition: CLEISTOGAMOUS
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Geology | Of flowers: self-pollinating and setting fertile seed but never opening. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
