| Pronunciation: | | 'kriptu`gam
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 WordNet Dictionary |
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[n] formerly recognized taxonomic group including all flowerless and seedless plants that reproduce by means of spores: ferns, mosses, algae, fungi |
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CRYPTOGAM is a 9 letter word that starts with C. |
| | See Also: | | flora, plant, plant life, thallophyte |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Cryp"to*gam\ (kr?p"t?-g?m), n. [Cf. F. cryptogame.
See {Cryptogamia}.] (Bot.)
A plant belonging to the Cryptogamia. --Henslow.
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| Biology Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | A plant whose sexual reproductive parts are not conspicuous; a plant that produces spores, not seeds, in its sexual reproductive cycle, e.g. ferns, mosses, algae. Compare phanerogam. |
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