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Updated: May 9, 2025

From that time onwards, so long as these Gymnosperms were, as was usual, reckoned as dicotyledonous flowering plants, the term Angiosperm was used antithetically by botanical writers, but with varying limitation, as a group-name for other dicotyledonous plants.

Various - Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1