Definition of phanerogam in English:
phanerogam
noun ˈfan(ə)rə(ʊ)ɡamˈfænərəˌɡæm
Botany old-fashioned term for spermatophyte
Example sentencesExamples
- Unlike phanerogams, which undergo long-range dispersal by seeds (seed plants) or spores (ferns and mosses), lichens have two fundamentally different mechanisms of long-range dispersal.
- It is known that, among the four spontaneous phanerogams colonising the sandy and muddy loose sea-bottoms of the Mediterranean Sea, i.e. Posidonia oceanica, Cymodocea nodosa, Zostera noltii and Zostera marina, mainly the Posidonia and the Cymodocea are the most frequent ones.
- Plants with flowers and leaves (phanerogams and Latifoliae) appeared no earlier than the Cretaceous - in other words about 100 million years ago, long after the first protophasmids.
Derivatives
adjective ˌfan(ə)rə(ʊ)ˈɡamɪkˌfæn(ə)rəˈɡæmɪk
Botany The phanerogamic flora of the New Hebrides is mainly of the Malesian type both in floristic composition and structure of the vegetation.
Example sentencesExamples
- In this area they were found seven sites inhabited for a total of 250 species related with phanerogamic flora.
adjective ˌfan(ə)ˈrɒɡəməs
Botany New Holland contains more than forty European phanerogamous plants.
Example sentencesExamples
- Some plants, like ferns, although they are not phanerogamous (therefore lacking flowers and reproducing by means of spores), have been historically considered together with these.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from French phanérogame, from Greek phaneros 'visible' + gamos 'marriage'.
Definition of phanerogam in US English:
phanerogam
nounˈfanərəˌɡamˈfænərəˌɡæm
Botany old-fashioned term for spermatophyte
Example sentencesExamples
- It is known that, among the four spontaneous phanerogams colonising the sandy and muddy loose sea-bottoms of the Mediterranean Sea, i.e. Posidonia oceanica, Cymodocea nodosa, Zostera noltii and Zostera marina, mainly the Posidonia and the Cymodocea are the most frequent ones.
- Unlike phanerogams, which undergo long-range dispersal by seeds (seed plants) or spores (ferns and mosses), lichens have two fundamentally different mechanisms of long-range dispersal.
- Plants with flowers and leaves (phanerogams and Latifoliae) appeared no earlier than the Cretaceous - in other words about 100 million years ago, long after the first protophasmids.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from French phanérogame, from Greek phaneros ‘visible’ + gamos ‘marriage’.