flowering plant

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   plants having seeds in a closed ovary

   Synonymsangiosperm

   Broaderspermatophyte

   Narrowerangiocarpdicotmonocotflowerwildflowermadderwort

   Part ofAngiospermae

   Partsflower

Questions about flowering plant

What does flowering plant mean?

flowering plant means "plants having seeds in a closed ovary".

What is another word for flowering plant?

Close synonyms include angiosperm. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is flowering plant a common word?

flowering plant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.