Associations to the word «Cleistogamy»

Wiktionary

CLEISTOGAMY, noun. (botany) The production of flowers which do not open, and are self-fertilized in the bud.

Dictionary definition

CLEISTOGAMY, noun. The production of small nonopening self-pollinating flowers.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne