Adjective:

बिना फूल का, कुसुमहीन, पुष्पहीन,

flowerless's Usage Examples:

The number of different species is estimated at 12,000, of which one-third are phanerogamous,or flowering plants, and two-thirds cryptogamous, or flowerless.

- Scott, Structural Botany: Flowerless Plants (London, 1896), Studies in Fossil Botany (Edinburgh, 1900);* Campbell, Mosses and Ferns (London, 1895); * Engler and Prantl, Die naturlichen Pflanzenfamilien (Theil i.

Flowering plants bear a seed containing an embryo, with usually one or two cotyledons, or seed-leaves; while in flowerless plants there is no seed and therefore no true cotyledon.

ACOTYLEDONES, the name given by Antoine Laurent de Jussieu in 1789 to the lowest class in his Natural System of Botany, embracing flowerless plants, such as ferns, lycopods, horse-tails, mosses, liverworts, sea-weeds, lichens and fungi.

He divided plants into sexual and asexual, the former being Phanerogamous or flowering, and the latter Cryptogamous or flowerless.

He separated flowering from flowerless plants, and divided the former into Dicotyledons and Monocotyledons.

Summer sees the lotus (renge) convert wide expanses of lake and river into sheets of white and red blossoms; a comparatively flowerless interval ensues until, in October and November, the chrysanthemum arrives to furnish an excuse for fashionable gatherings.

Each class of flowerless or cryptogamic plants requires special treatment for the herbarium.

The seeds of the cryptogams or flowerless plants are not true seeds and are properly designated "spores."

The plant world falls into two great divisions, the higher or flowering plants (Phanerogams), characterized by the formation of a seed, and the lower or flowerless plants (Cryptogams), in which no seed is formed but the plants are disseminated by means of unicellular bodies termed spores.

Synonyms:

spore-bearing, nonflowering,

Antonyms:

ontogenesis, inflorescence, flowering,