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owering plants including all which have true flowers with distinct floral organs; phanerogamia.

Same as Phænogamous.

That one of the two primary divisions of the vegetable kingdom which contains the phanerogamic, or flowering, plants.

Phanerogamous.

Same as Phænogamia.

Same as Phænogamian, Phænogamic, etc.

A Linnæan class of plants, characterized by having both hermaphrodite and unisexual flowers on the same plant.

Polygamous.

A division of Foraminifera including those having a manychambered shell.

A river tortoise; one of a group of tortoises (Potamites, or Trionychoidea) having a soft shell, webbed feet, and a sharp beak. See Trionyx.

Of or pertaining to the island of Samos. Fill high the cup with Samian wine. Byreon. Samian earth, a species of clay from Samoa, formerly used in medicine as an astringent.

A genus of ground squirrels, including the chipmunk.

A Linnæan class of plants having six stamens, four of which are longer than the others.

A plant of the order Tetradynamia.

Belonging to the order Tetradynamia; having six stamens, four of which are uniformly longer than the others.

The quality or state of being unamiable; moroseness.

Not amiable; morose; ill-natured; repulsive. -- Un*a"mi*a*bly, adv.

A genus of cycadaceous plants, having the appearance of low palms, but with exogenous wood. See Coontie, and Illust. of Strobile.

A plant of the highest class of cryptograms, including the ferns, etc. See Cryptogamia. The Age of Acrogens (Geol.), the age of coal plants, or the carboniferous era.

Adynamia. [R.] Morin.