adjective
- not producing flowers
Usage: botanical
Examples
- Ferns are nonflowering plants that reproduce by spores.
- The garden featured both flowering and nonflowering species.
- Mosses and algae are examples of nonflowering plants.
- Nonflowering plants dominated the landscape before flowering plants evolved.
- The botanist studied the reproductive methods of nonflowering vegetation.
- Conifers are nonflowering trees that produce cones instead of flowers.