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A person recently married.

A marrying eight times. [R.] Chaucer.

len fertilizing the ovules comes from the stamens of the same blossom; -- opposed to heterogamy.

Any plant of the class Phænogamia.

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

Same as Phænogamous.

Having true flowers with with distinct floral organs; flowering.

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

Phanerogamous.

Having visible flowers containing distinct stamens and pistils; -- said of plants.

Same as Phænogamia.

Same as Phænogamian, Phænogamic, etc.

One of the motile ciliated gametes, or zoögametes, found in isogamous plants, as many green algæ (Chlorophyceæ).

An aboriginal weapon consisting of a stone or piece of antler fastened to the end of a slender wooden handle, used by American Indians from the Great Plains to the Mackenzie River.

Cross fertilization.

Of or pertaining zoögamy.

The sexual reproduction of animals.

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.

Having no visible sexual organs; asexual. In Bot., cryptogamous.

A kind of seaweed; pl. the class of cellular cryptogamic plants which includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water confervæ, etc.