Cleistogamous is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CLEISTOGAMOUS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• self-fertilization that occurs within a permanently closed flower.
ADJECTIVE:
• relating to cleistogamy, the production of small inconspicuous closed self-pollinating flowers additional to and often more fruitful than showier ones on the same plant, also CLEISTOGAMIC
• 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.
• exhibiting or relating to cleistogamy
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• characterized by or being small inconspicuous closed self-pollinating flowers additional to and often more fruitful than showier ones on the same plant

Words related to CLEISTOGAMOUS

cleistogamously23 cleistogamy19

Words that contain CLEISTOGAMOUS

cleistogamously23

How to use CLEISTOGAMOUS in a sentence

• If it were only a question of producing seed in the simplest way, cleistogamous flowers would be the most conveniently constructed.
• Some of the plants with cleistogamous flowers might afford examples of such cases.

Similar words containing CLEISTOGAMOU without suffix s

cleistogamously23

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