cryptogam

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

Any plant that reproduces using spores (rather than seeds), formerly placed in the taxonomic group Cryptogamae, which included ferns, mosses, algae, fungi, lichens and liverworts.

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cryptogam cryptogams

From Ancient Greek κρυπτός (kruptós, “hidden”) + γαμέω (gaméō, “to marry”).

aëtheogam

bryophyte Cryptogamae pteridophyte sporangium thallophyte

anticryptogamic cryptogamian cryptogamic cryptogamist cryptogamous cryptogamy

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