flowering plant
a plant that produces flowers, fruit, and seeds; angiosperm.
Origin of flowering plant
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How to use flowering plant in a sentence
A small flowering plant in the pea family, Fabaceae, known as alfalfa.
This makes it as ornamental as if it were a flowering plant.
Amateur Gardencraft | Eben E. RexfordOn the slimy soil no small shrub uprears its head, no flowering plant unfolds its blossom.
The rapidity and vigour of the four months' growth from bulb to giant flowering plant is very remarkable.
Wood and Garden | Gertrude JekyllIt is surprising what a tiny bit of Phlox will make a strong flowering plant in one season.
Wood and Garden | Gertrude Jekyll
All of them attack roots, and most confine their attentions to one particular flowering plant.
The Romance of Plant Life | G. F. Scott Elliot
Scientific definitions for flowering plant
[ flou′ər-ĭng ]
A plant that produces flowers and fruit; an angiosperm. See more at angiosperm.
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