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Phanerogam vs Null - What's the difference?

phanerogam | null |

As nouns the difference between phanerogam and null

is that phanerogam is (botany) any plant that produces seeds (rather than spores) while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.

phanerogam

English

(Spermatophyte)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (botany) Any plant that produces seeds (rather than spores).
  • * 1977 , Francesco D'Amato, Nuclear Cytology in Relation to Development , page 8,
  • Among phanerogams (seed plants), only two orders of gymnosperms, the Cycadales and the Ginkgoales, have ciliated motile sperm cells; all others (higher gymnosperms and angiosperms) have nonmotile sperm cells or sperm nuclei.
  • * 2003 , Burkhard Frenzel, History of Flora and Vegetation During the Quaternary'', Karl Esser, Ulrich Lüttge, Wolfram Beyschlag, Jin Murata (editors), ''Progress in Botany , Volume 65, page 591,
  • The stomach contents of the Selerikanka horse contained 116 taxa: 96 phanerogams', 20 cryptogams. Among the ' phanerogams were 12 tree species, 14 species of shrubs and dwarf-shrubs, as well as 72 species of herbs and very small dwarf-shrubs.
  • * 2005 , Mark Nuttall, Encyclopedia of the Arctic , unnumbered page,
  • Generally speaking, the ranges of most cryptogams are geographically broader than those of phanerogams , and many more species are widely disjunct over the world.

    Synonyms

    * (plant that produces seeds) spermatophyte

    Coordinate terms

    * cryptogam

    See also

    * angiosperm * gymnosperm * Phanerogamae

    Anagrams

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    null

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
  • Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • Something that has no force or meaning.
  • (computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
  • (computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
  • Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
  • One of the beads in nulled work.
  • (statistics) null hypothesis
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having no validity, "null and void"
  • insignificant
  • * 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
  • In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.
  • absent or non-existent
  • (mathematics) of the null set
  • (mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
  • (genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
  • Derived terms

    * nullity

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to nullify; to annul
  • (Milton)

    See also

    * nil ----