adjective
- of or relating to plants that produce flowers and seeds; flowering
Usage: botanical term; formal
Examples
- Phanerogamous plants dominate most terrestrial ecosystems.
- The botanist classified the specimen as phanerogamous because it produced visible flowers.
- Unlike cryptogamous ferns, phanerogamous plants reproduce through seeds.
- Most trees and shrubs are phanerogamous species.
- The garden featured a variety of phanerogamous flowering plants.