Definition of "phaenogamous" []

• Having true flowers with with distinct floral organs; flowering. (adjective)

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• "It is to the animal and vegetable coral the sea owes its arborescent and floriform scenery, the counterpart of the forest and phaenogamous beauty that adorns the land."
• "The crystal atmosphere of this land of meridional spring, the masses of tawny green in forests of the pine, and the deeper foliage of the live-oak and wild-orange, even that fire of flower in phaenogamous plants peculiar to the Peninsula, have their fellowship and counterparts in the lustrous scenery of the submarine world."
• "The arborescent and phaenogamous forms of the coral are to be noticed."