The botanical division containing flowering plants whose seeds are enclosed within a fruit or ovary; the angiosperms as a formal taxonomic group.
From Greek 'angion' (vessel, case) + 'sperma' (seed), with Latin plural '-ae'. This is the scientific Latin name for the flowering plant division, emphasizing their enclosed seeds.
Angiospermae is the fancy scientific name that botanists use—it literally means 'seed in a vessel,' which is what makes flowering plants so revolutionary: they wrapped their seeds in a protective case that became the fruit.
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