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angiosperm

any member of the class Angiospermae, in which the seeds are enclosed in an ovary The class contains the most advanced vascular plants. Each member of the class is either a MONOCOTYLEDON (e.g. grasses, tulips) or a DICOTYLEDON (e.g. apple, primrose). See PLANT KINGDOM for a more complete classification.

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In most conifers micropyle sealing is followed, but less rapidly, with enclosure of the developing embryo and seed by enlargement of cone scales, or other tissues, so that plants now become angiospermous (Table 1).

Rescuing Robert Brown--the origins of angio-ovuly in seed cones of conifers

Thin porous membranes in end walls of tracheids--and then vessels--may be the angiospermous compensation for lack of the margo spaces that conifers have.

Monocot xylem revisited: new information, new paradigms

About 250 fossil pollen types related to 113 extant angiospermous families from the Cretaceous and the Tertiary in China are discussed in

Fossil pollen records of extant angiosperms in China

The Caytoniales: A new group of angiospermous plants from the Jurassic rocks of Yorkshire.

Systematics, ontogeny, and phylogenetic implications of exceptional anatomically preserved cycadophyte leaves from the Middle Jurassic of Bearreraig Bay, Skye, northwest Scotland

ever-increasing case studies of apomixis in the angiospermous flora of

Optimization theory in plant evolution: an overview of long-term evolutionary prospects in the angiosperms