Defn: Having true flowers with with distinct floral organs; flowering.
PHAENOMENON
Phæ*nom"e*non, n. Etym: [L.]
Defn: See Phenomenon.
PHAEOSPORE
Phæ"o*spore, n. Etym: [Gr. spore.] (Bot.)
Defn: A brownish zoöspore, characteristic of an order (Phæosporeæ) of dark green or olive-colored algæ. — Phæ`o*spor"ic, a.
PHAETHON
Pha"ë*thon, n. Etym: [L., Phaëthon (in sense 1), fr. Gr. Phantom.]
1. (Class. Myth.)
Defn: The son of Helios (Phoebus), that is, the son of light, or of the sun. He is fabled to have obtained permission to drive the chariot of the sun, in doing which his want of skill would have set the world on fire, had he not been struck with a thunderbolt by Jupiter, and hurled headlong into the river Po.
2. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A genus of oceanic birds including the tropic birds.