Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Cleistogamic \Cleis`to*gam"ic\, Cleistogamous
\Cleis*tog"a*mous\a. [Gr. ? closed (fr. ? to shut) + ?
marriage.] (Bot.)
Having, beside the usual flowers, other minute, closed
flowers, without petals or with minute petals; -- said of
certain species of plants which possess flowers of two or
more kinds, the closed ones being so constituted as to insure
self-fertilization. --Darwin.
Source : WordNet®
cleistogamic
adj : exhibiting or relating to cleistogamy [syn: {cleistogamous}]