flowering plant
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- noun
- /ˈflaʊərɪŋ plænt/
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planta con flores
- In spring, many gardeners plant flowering plants to brighten up their yards.
- flowering plant species
- seeds of flowering plants
- percent of all flowering plants
Many flowering plants have the flower pattern in the ultraviolet to attract the insects.
- Many flowering plants have the flower pattern in the ultraviolet to attract the insects.
- And those planets had like more sophisticated vein systems and they were moving beyond spores to seeded plants, etcetera and flowering plants.
- Not with palms and ferns, but palms, ferns and flowering trees, deciduous trees, flowering plants, wildflowers.
Examples
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All flowering plants rely on a shared set of fundamental gene functions to build their blooms.
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Sweet fern, despite its name and fern-like foliage, is actually a flowering plant in the wax myrtle family.
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There are groups covering both general nature and flowering plants.
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And the flowering plants, they really cheer the place up.
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All angiosperms are flowering plants, some of which are woody and some of those are trees.
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The nandina is a species of flowering plant native to Eastern Asia.
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Many flowering plants have the flower pattern in the ultraviolet to attract the insects.
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Vegetation, including twenty-six species of flowering plants, once again carpeted the island.
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There are a lot of flowering plants, and each species makes its own distinctive-looking pollen grain.
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Seagrasses are submerged aquatic flowering plants that are not directly related to terrestrial grasses.
Academic text (2012)
Synonyms
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Part of a plant that is often colorful and makes seeds
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A plant that makes flowers and has seeds inside a fruit
How Ornamental
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- Specialized
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase is a straightforward adjective+noun composition: 'flowering' (bearing flowers) + 'plant' (a plant) yields the literal meaning 'a plant that produces flowers.' This direct, compositional pattern is common across languages and follows standard English morphology, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand it.
Etymology
The noun flowering plant is a simple name for a plant that is flowering, so it has flowers. That's why it means a plant that 'produces flowers' and keeps its seeds inside a fruit.