Usage examples (6)

• Within each class the flower-characters as the essential feature of Angiosperms supply the clue to phylogeny, but the uncertainty regarding the construction of the primitive...
• The number of cotyledons is so constant that they afford a character for the primary division of angiospermous plants.
• But there were still angiospermous and orpine on my original list; and the night was, indeed, "opening like a cotyledon."
• It is a remarkable fact, as he justly observes, that the angiospermous exogens, which comprise four-fifths of living plants -- a division to which all our native