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CRYPTOGAM

\kɹˈɪptəɡˌam], \kɹˈɪptəɡˌam], \k_ɹ_ˈɪ_p_t_ə_ɡ_ˌa_m]\

Definitions of CRYPTOGAM

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language

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A plant belonging to the Cryptogamia.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

One of the group of plants without flowers and without embryo-containing seeds.

1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop

A plant that has no true flowers, but propagates by spores.
Cryptogamic.

1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
By James Champlin Fernald

A name given to that group of plants for the supposed reason that sexual reproduction was concealed; phanerogam.

1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.

Any flowerless plant. [Lat.]

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe

n. [Greek] A flowerless plant, or one which does not fructify by the ordinary method.

1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language

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