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Cleistogamous
Webster's Dictionary
(a.) 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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Cleistogamous'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/c/cleistogamous.html. 1828.