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[syn: cleistogamous, cleistogamic]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Cleistogamic \Cleis`to*gam"ic\, Cleistogamous
\Cleis*tog"a*mous\a. [Gr. ? closed (fr. ? to shut) + ga`mos
marriage.] (Bot.)
Having, beside the usual flowers, other minute, closed
flowers, without petals or with minute petals; -- said of
certain species of plants which possess flowers of two or
more kinds, the closed ones being so constituted as to insure
self-fertilization. --Darwin.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
cleistogamous
adj 1: exhibiting or relating to cleistogamy [syn:
cleistogamous, cleistogamic]