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cleistes |
cleistes divaricata |
cleistes rosea |
cleistocarp |
cleistogamic |
cleistogamous
| cleistogamy
| cleistothecium
| clem
| clematis
| clematis baldwinii
cleistogamous
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective cleistogamous has 1 sense
- cleistogamous(a = adj.pert) cleistogamic - exhibiting or relating to cleistogamy; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
cleistogamous, a. [Gr. closed (fr. to shut) + ga`mos marriage.].
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. [1913 Webster]
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