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Meanings of flowering plant in English

Portuguese
plantas de flor
Catalan
angiosperm

The division of seed plants that includes all the flowering plants, characterized by the possession of flowers.

        plantas de flor
        Russian
        цветы

        Plant grown for showy or decorative flowers.

              цветы
              Usage of flowering plant in English
              1
              A tall flowering plant staggered toward them, thin, tendril-like arms outstretched.
              Stay Out from the Basement
              2
              The open-air dancing platform was surrounded by a rich hedge of some flowering plant.
              A Russian Journal
              3
              In this hour he bloomed, like some night- flowering plant, of perfume sweet but poisonous.
              Idolatry: A Romance
              4
              She had nothing in the world but this one flowering plant which she called Szilard.
              The Poor Plutocrats
              5
              Yorkshire has a night- flowering plant of this kind, with pale flowers and a forked stem.
              Chatterbox, 1906
              6
              The nightmaws turned back down the canyon, following the mental signature broadcast by the flowering plant.
              Arcanum Unbounded
              7
              Khat or qat is a flowering plant native to the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
              The South African
              8
              A flowering plant grows from a seed.
              The Irish Times
              9
              Passiflora alata or passion fruit is a native flowering plant from Amazon, geographically spread from Peru to Brazil.
              Pubmed
              10
              Recent findings: Cannabis is a flowering plant with psychoactive properties, attributed to cannabinoids that naturally occur within the plant.
              Pubmed
              11
              The number of species recognized in section Asperae of the flowering plant genus Hydrangea differs widely between subsequent revisions.
              Pubmed
              12
              Grow it from seed in spring or early summer and you will have a flowering plant the following spring.
              The Guardian
              13
              Banned in many Western countries, khat is a flowering plant that is native to east Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
              Reuters
              14
              About 250,000 species of flowering plant require pollination.
              The Irish Times
              15
              It is not a sea-weed, but a real flowering plant, which, for some reason or other, loves to grow under water.
              On the Seashore / Cassell's "Eyes and No Eyes" Series, Book VII
              16
              Later this month, Japan Airlines plans a test flight using fuel refined from camelina, a flowering plant grown in the high plains.
              Wired
              Translations for flowering plant
              Catalan
              angiosperm