nonflowering

IPA: nɑnfɫˈaʊɝɪŋ

adjective

  • (biology) Of a plant, not flowering; reproducing by means other than pollination from flowers.
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Examples of "nonflowering" in Sentences

  • The spores of nonflowering plants are analogous to the seeds of flowering plants.
  • Scattered about were pale abstract watercolors and several nonflowering potted plants.
  • "nonflowering," meaning that there should be little chance of accidental contamination of nearby crops.
  • It is nonflowering, nonseeding (or at least nonspreading), and must be replicated by vegetative propagation.
  • A wind swept our hillock from the direction of its far side, where nasty-looking, spiked plants of a nonflowering variety grew.
  • It changes tall, late, or nonflowering varieties that produce well only in the tropics into short, early-maturing forms that can be used in many parts of the world, including the temperate zones.
  • New Caledonia has a remarkable diversity of gymnosperms (primitive nonflowering plants that include conifers), with forty-four species (forty-three of which are endemic) out of fifteen genera (at least three of which are endemic).

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