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"a flowerless plant"adjectivewithout flower or bloom and not producing seeds
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- moss tiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants
- fern any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores
- horsetail perennial rushlike flowerless herbs with jointed hollow stems and narrow toothlike leaves that spread by creeping rhizomes; tend to become weedy; common in northern hemisphere; some in Africa and South America
- acrogenous pertaining to flowerless plants (ferns or mosses) in which growth occurs only at the tip of the main stem
- cryptogam formerly recognized taxonomic group including all flowerless and seedless plants that reproduce by means of spores: ferns, mosses, algae, fungi
- thallophyta used only in former classifications: comprising what is now considered a heterogeneous assemblage of flowerless and seedless organisms: algae; bacteria; fungi; lichens
- acrogen any flowerless plant such as a fern (pteridophyte) or moss (bryophyte) in which growth occurs only at the tip of the main stem
- acrogenic pertaining to flowerless plants (ferns or mosses) in which growth occurs only at the tip of the main stem