English
proangiosperm
From pro- + angiosperm.
Formed from pro- + angiosperm
Proto-Indo-European *pér ‘through’
Proto-Indo-European *pró ‘forwards, before’
Proto-Italic *prō ‘in front of, before’
Latin prō ‘in favor of, on behalf of’
English pro-
Today it means
noun An angiosperm in the act of becoming so from some ancestral form.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “proangiosperm”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / proangiosperm