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Definitions of cryptogam in various dictionaries:
noun - formerly recognized taxonomic group including all flowerless and seedless plants that reproduce by means of spores: ferns, mosses, algae, fungi
A member of a formerly recognized taxonomic group that included all seedless plants, such as mosses, algae, fungi, and ferns.
CRYPTOGAM - A cryptogam (scientific name Cryptogamae) is a plant (in the wide sense of the word) that reproduces by spores, without flowers or seeds. "Cryptogama...
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| Last Seen in these Crosswords & Puzzles |
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| Jan 17 2018 The Times - Cryptic |
| May 7 2005 The Times - Cryptic |
| Dec 23 2004 The Guardian - Cryptic crossword |
| Jul 3 2003 Irish Times (Crosaire) |
| Nov 19 2001 The Times - Cryptic |
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| A member of a formerly recognized taxonomic group that included all seedless plants and plantlike organisms, such as mosses, algae, ferns, and fungi. |
| a plant that has no true flowers or seeds, including ferns, mosses, liverworts, lichens, algae, and fungi. |
| formerly recognized taxonomic group including all flowerless and seedless plants that reproduce by means of spores: ferns, mosses, algae, fungi |
| A plant that has no true flowers or seeds, including ferns, mosses, liverworts, lichens, algae, and fungi. |
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A cryptogam (scientific name Cryptogamae) is a plant (in the wide sense of the word) that reproduces by spores, without flowers or seeds. "Cryptogamae" (Greek kryptos, "hidden" + , gameein, "to marry") means hidden reproduction, referring to the fact that no seed is produced, thus cryptogams represent the non-seed bearing plants. Other names, such as "thallophytes", "lower plants", and "spore plants" are also occasionally used. As a group, Cryptogamae are the opposite of the Phanerogamae (Greek , phaneros = "visible") or Spermatophyta (Greek , sperma = "seed" and , phyton = "plant"), the seed plants. The best known groups of cryptogams are algae, lichens, mosses and ferns, but it also includes non-photosynthetic organisms traditionally classified as plants, such as fungi, slime molds, and bacteria.The classification is now deprecated in Linnaean taxonomy. * At one time, the cryptogams were formally recognised as a group within the plant kingdom. In his system for classification of all k |