flowering plants

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flowering plants - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Flowering \Flow"er*ing\, a. (Bot.)
     Having conspicuous flowers; -- used as an epithet with many
     names of plants; as, flowering ash; flowering dogwood;
     flowering almond, etc.
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     Flowering fern, a genus of showy ferns (Osmunda), with
        conspicuous bivalvular sporangia. They usually grow in wet
        places.
  
     Flowering plants, plants which have stamens and pistils,
        and produce true seeds; phenogamous plants; --
        distinguished from flowerless plants.
  
     Flowering rush, a European rushlike plant (Butomus  umbellatus
        ), with an umbel of rosy blossoms.
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