kleistos
121Cleistogenes — Gk kleistos, to be locked away; genos, descent. The plants have cleistogamic spikelets …
122cleistogamy — [klʌɪ stɒgəmi] noun Botany self fertilization that occurs within a permanently closed flower. Derivatives cleistogamous adjective Origin C19: from Gk kleistos closed + gamos marriage …
123cleistogamous — [klīs΄tə gam′ikklīs täg′ə məs] adj. [< Gr kleistos, closed (see CLOSE2) + GAMOUS] Bot. having small, unopened, self pollinating flowers, usually in addition to the showier flowers: also cleistogamic [klīs΄tə gam′ik] …
124cleistogamy — [klīs täg′əmē] n. [< Gr kleistos (see CLEISTOGAMOUS) + GAMY] Bot. self pollination of certain unopened flowers …
125close — close1 [klōs] adj. closer, closest [ME clos < OFr < L clausus, pp. of claudere (see CLOSE2); senses under II from notion “with spaces or intervals closed up”] I denoting the fact or state of being closed or confined 1. shut; not open 2.… …
126cleistogamic — adj. Bot. (of a flower) permanently closed and self fertilizing. Etymology: Gk kleistos closed + gamos marriage …
127cleist- — combining form or cleisto also clist or clisto Etymology: German kleist , kleisto , from Greek kleistos; akin to Greek kleis key : closed …
128physoclisti — ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈkliˌstī noun plural Usage: capitalized Etymology: New Latin, from phys + clisti (from Greek kleistos closed) more at cleist in some classifications : an order of fishes comprising the physoclists compare physostomi …
