Cleistogamic

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Cleistogamic \Cleis`to*gam"ic\, Cleistogamous
  \Cleis*tog"a*mous\a. [Gr. ? closed (fr. ? to shut) + ga`mos
     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.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  cleistogamic
       adj : exhibiting or relating to cleistogamy [syn: {cleistogamous}]