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Cleistogamy

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Noun

1. cleistogamy

the production of small nonopening self-pollinating flowers

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Cleistogamy

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noun
self-pollination and fertilization of an unopened flower, as in the flowers of the violet produced in summer
Compare chasmogamy

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Cleistogamy

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noun
Botany
self-pollination of certain unopened flowers

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Cleistogamy

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adj.
Of or relating to a flower that does not open and is self-pollinated in the bud.

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