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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).

Play of children. Locke.

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.

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

Polygamous.

One who practices polygamy, or maintains its lawfulness.

To practice polygamy; to marry several wives. Sylvester. Coleridge.

Of or pertaining to polygamy; characterized by, or involving, polygamy; having a plurality of wives; as, polygamous marriages; -- opposed to monogamous.

n one woman, or the practice of having several wives, at the same time; -- opposed to monogamy; as, the nations of the East practiced polygamy. See the Note under Bigamy, and cf. Polyandry.

A ligament, of fascia, extending, in most mammals, from the ventral side of the ilium to near the symphysis of the pubic bones.

That which is excreted; excretion. [Obs.]

A paltry or disreputable fellow; a mean which. Dryden.

writters distinguished between them, making the sachem a chief of the first rank, and a sagamore one of the second rank. "Be it sagamore, sachem, or powwow." Longfellow.

One who has been married three times; also, one who has three husbands or three wives at the same time.