angiosperm

English

An angiosperm, Magnolia denudata

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀγγεῖον (angeîon, “receptacle”) + σπέρμα (spérma, “seed”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Do we know when the term was coined?”)

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæn.d͡ʒi.əˌspɝm/

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Noun

angiosperm (plural angiosperms)

1. (botany) Any plant of the clade Angiosperms, characterized by having ovules enclosed in an ovary; a flowering plant.
   • 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, pages 3-4:

     As with the Lejeuneaceae, this pattern of massive speciation appears to be correlated with the Cretaceous explosion of the angiosperms and the simultaneous creation of a host of new microenvironments, differing in humidity, light intensity, texture, etc.

   • 1997, Valentin A. Krassilov, Angiosperm Origins: Morphological and Ecological Aspects‎^[1], page 134:

     The notion of magnoliaceans as the most primitive living angiosperms, justified or not, does not mean that all their characters, including multilacunar nodal anatomy and the lack of tannins, are primary.

   • 2009, Xin Wang, 3: New Fossils and New Hope for the Origin of Angiosperms, Pierre Pontarotti, Evolutionary Biology: Concept, Modeling, and Application, page 55,

     With all these features, it is pretty easy for one to identify an angiosperm. This is a very normal and common practice for neobotanists. However, the situation becomes complicated when you go back to the early history of angiosperms.

Derived terms

• angiospermal
• angiospermic
• angiospermous
• nonangiosperm

 

Related terms

• gymnosperm

Translations

member of plant group

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: angiosperma f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 被子植物 (zh) (bèizǐzhíwù)

• Danish: dækfrøet plante c
• Finnish: koppisiemeninen (fi)
• French: angiosperme (fr) f
• Galician: anxiosperma f
• German: Bedecktsamer (de) m, Angiosperme (de) f
• Hindi: आवृतबीज m (āvŕtbīj), आवृतबीजी m (āvŕtbījī)
• Irish: angaispeirm f
• Italian: angiosperma (it) f
• Japanese: 被子植物 (ja) (hishi shokubutsu)
• Kazakh: гүлді өсімдік (güldı ösımdık), жабық тұқымды өсімдік (jabyq tūqymdy ösımdık)
• Korean: 속씨식물 (ko) (sokssisingmul)
• Macedonian: скриеносе́меник m (skrienosémenik)
• Maori: tipu whaipua
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: blomsterplante (no) m or f, angiosperm m

• Persian: نهنج‌دانگان (nahanj-dânegân)
• Polish: nagonasienny m
• Portuguese: angiosperma (pt) f, angiospérmica (pt) f
• Romanian: angiospermă (ro) f
• Russian: цветко́вое расте́ние n (cvetkóvoje rasténije), покрытосеменно́е расте́ние n (pokrytosemennóje rasténije)
• Spanish: angiosperma (es) f
• Swedish: angiosperm (sv) c, gömfröig växt c
• Telugu: ఆవృతబీజము (āvr̥tabījamu)
• Vietnamese: cây hạt kín

See also

• Angiospermae
• Angiosperms
• Magnoliophyta
• Magnoliopsida

References

• Category:angiosperms on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French angiosperme.

Noun

angiosperm f (plural angiospermi)

1. angiosperm

Declension

Declension of angiosperm

	singular		plural
	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	(o) angiosperm	angiosper	(niște) angiospermi	angiospermile
genitive/dative	(unei) angiospermi	angiospermii	(unor) angiospermi	angiospermilor
vocative	—		—