cryptogam Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun formerly recognized taxonomic group including all flowerless and seedless plants that reproduce by means of spores: ferns, mosses, algae, fungi

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Cryp"to*gam noun
Etymology
Cf. F. cryptogame. See Cryptogamia.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A plant belonging to the Cryptogamia. Henslow.

Webster 1913