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Definition of Cryptogam
1. Noun. Formerly recognized taxonomic group including all flowerless and seedless plants that reproduce by means of spores: ferns, mosses, algae, fungi.
Specialized synonyms: Thallophyte
Derivative terms: Cryptogamic, Cryptogamous
Definition of Cryptogam
1. n. A plant belonging to the Cryptogamia.
Definition of Cryptogam
1. Noun. A member of a former taxonomic group of plants that reproduce using spores, such as ferns, mosses, algae, fungi, lichens or liverworts. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cryptogam
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Cryptogam
1. A plant whose sexual reproductive parts are not conspicuous, a plant that produces spores, not seeds, in its sexual reproductive cycle, for example ferns, mosses, algae. Compare: phanerogam. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cryptogam
Literary usage of Cryptogam
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society by Royal Microscopical Society, London (1882)
"Insect-destroying cryptogam.^—J- Lichtenstein calls attention to a very curious
case of parasitism, namely, the presence in the hothouses of the Jardin des ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1861)
"They saw nothing beyond the field of the microscope, and they took the products
in the order in which they were presented: the cryptogam on the surface, ..."
3. Flora Devoniensis: Or A Descriptive Catalogue of Plants Growing Wild in the by John Pike Jones, J. F. Kingston (1829)
"Per. single, 2-partite. Stam. 0. The rest as in the perfect fl.—P. 161. XXIV.
cryptogam IA. The original Linnaean orders of this Class were, 1. ..."
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