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Cleistogamous
{
Cleisˊto-gam′ic
,Cleis-tog′a-mous
}Adj.
[Gr. [GREEK] closed (fr. [GREEK] to shut) +
γάμοσ
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.
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cleistogamous
cleistogamous
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Adjective
cleistogamous (not comparable)
- (botany) Pertaining to cleistogamy.