kliːstoʊˈɡɛnɪ

Definitions

1. noun

a plant that grows in a clump and produces flowers and seeds only in the center, where the leaves are crowded together

“The botanist studied the unique phenomenon of cleistogeny in certain species of grasses.”

2. noun

a type of asexual reproduction in plants, in which a new individual grows from a small part of a parent plant