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ANGIOSPERMS

"ANGIOSPERMS" is a plural of: angiosperm.

Date "ANGIOSPERMS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1991. (references)


Specialty Definition: ANGIOSPERMS

DomainDefinition

Food & Agriculture

The botanical name for the group of vascular flowering plants that produce seeds enclosed in an ovary. Source: European Union. (references)

Health

Any member of the more than 250,000 species of flowering plants (division Magnoliophyta) having roots, stems, leaves, and well-developed conductive tissues (xylem and phloem). Angiosperms are often differentiated from gymnosperms by their production of seeds within a closed chamber (the ovary). The Magnoliophyta division is composed of two classes, the monocotyledons (Liliopsida) and dicotyledons (Magnoliopsida). (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: ANGIOSPERMS

English words defined with "ANGIOSPERMS": angiospermousclass GnetopsidaGnetales, Gnetophyta, Gnetophytina, GnetopsidaHamamelidaemagnoliid dicot family, magnoliid dicot genusorder Gnetalessubclass Hamamelidae, subdivision Gnetophytinatracheophyte, treevascular plant. (references)
Specialty definitions using "ANGIOSPERMS": autumn woodearly wood, earlywoodGymnospermslate wood, latewoodspringwood, summer woodTombusvirus, Trees. (references)

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Commercial Usage: ANGIOSPERMS

DomainTitle

Books

  • Cell and Tissue Culture in Forestry: Case Histories: Gymnosperms, Angiosperms and Palms (Forestry Sciences, 26) (reference)

  • Morphology of the Angiosperms (reference)

  • Taxonomy of Angiosperms (reference)

  • The Early Evolution of Angiosperms (reference)

  • The Origins of Angiosperms and Their Biological Consequences (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: ANGIOSPERMS

"ANGIOSPERMS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 96.77% of the time. "ANGIOSPERMS" is used about 31 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)96.77%3063,341
Lexical Verb (-s form)3.23%1339,140
                    Total100.00%31N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: ANGIOSPERMS

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

angiosperms

38

angiosperms gymnosperms

4

angiosperms picture

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: ANGIOSPERMS

Language Translations for "ANGIOSPERMS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

angiospermae (Angiospermae, broad-leaved trees, hardwoods), daekfroeede planter (Angiospermae), daekfroede planter (broad-leaved trees, hardwoods). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

angiospermen (Angiospermae, broad-leaved trees, hardwoods), angiospermae (Angiospermae), bedektzadigen (Angiospermae, broad-leaved trees, hardwoods). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

angiospermi (Angiospermae), koppisiemeniset, koppisiemeninen (Angiospermae). (various references)

   

French

  

arbres feuillus, angiospermes (angiospermae), angiosperme (Angiospermae), feuillus. (various references)

   

German

  

Angiospermen (Angiospermae), Laubholzbäume (broad-leaved trees, hardwoods), Laubbäume (broad-leaved trees, hardwoods, non-coniferous species), bedecktsamige Pflanzen (angiospermae), Bedecktsamer. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

πλατύφυλλα (broad-leaved trees, hardwoods), αγγειόσπερμα (angiosperm). (various references)

   

Italian

  

angiosperme (Angiospermae, broad-leaved trees, hardwoods). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

angiospermsay

   

Portuguese

  

angiospermas (angiospermae), angiospérmicas (broad-leaved trees, hardwoods), angiospérmica (Angiospermae). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

ангиосперм (angiosperm). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

angiospermas (angiospermae, broad-leaved trees, hardwoods), angiosperma (angiosperm), latifoliadas (broad-leaved trees, hardwoods), frondosas (broad-leaved trees, hardwood, hardwoods). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

angiosperm (Angiospermae), gömfröig växt. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: ANGIOSPERMS

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Angiospermae. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Misspellings: ANGIOSPERMS

Misspellings

"ANGIOSPERMS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: agamospermy, angiosperma, angiospers. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: ANGIOSPERMS

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-m-n-o-p-r-s-s"

-1 letter: angiosperm.

-2 letters: aspersing, aspersion, grapiness, masonries, organises, organisms, preassign, repassing, romanises.

-3 letters: agonises, anemosis, argosies, assigner, assignor, epigrams, erasions, gaminess, gisarmes, goriness, gossamer, gossiper, grimness, imposers, impregns, impresas, isograms, manropes, meropias, mispages, misparse, moraines, ogreisms, organise, organism, peonisms, perigons, personas, pingrass, pressing, pressman, primages, primness, promines, promises, prosaism, rampions, reassign, reposing, responsa, romaines.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-m-n-o-p-r-s-s"
 

+2 letters: angiospermous, superorganism.

 

+3 letters: superorganisms.

 

+4 letters: pharmacognosies, spermatogenesis.

 

+5 letters: megasporogenesis, phrasemongerings.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Usage Frequency
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Bibliography


  

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