noun
- a plant that produces flowers and seeds; a flowering plant
Usage: botanical; technical
Examples
- Roses and oak trees are examples of phanerogams.
- The botanist studied the reproductive structures of various phanerogams.
- Phanerogams differ from ferns in their method of reproduction.
- Most garden plants are phanerogams that produce visible flowers.
- The classification system separates phanerogams from non-flowering plants.
- Students learned to identify phanerogams by their seed-bearing characteristics.