Definition of Cryptogams

1. Noun. (plural of cryptogam) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cryptogams

1. cryptogam [n] - See also: cryptogam

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cryptogams

cryptodepression
cryptodepressions
cryptodidymus
cryptoexotic
cryptoexotics
cryptofascism
cryptofascist
cryptofascistic
cryptofascists
cryptogame
cryptogamic
cryptogamist
cryptogamists
cryptogamous
cryptogams (current term)
cryptogenic
cryptogenic cirrhosis
cryptogenic epilepsy
cryptogenic infection
cryptogenic pyaemia
cryptogenic septicaemia
cryptogram
cryptogrammatic
cryptogrammatically
cryptogramme
cryptograms
cryptograph
cryptographer
cryptographers

Literary usage of Cryptogams

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Francis Wall Oliver, Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Marian (Balfour) Busk (1895)
"... FRUIT-FORMATION IN cryptogams. continue to use them with advantage. Thus, under the name of Cryptogam we shall include all plants destitute of flowers ..."

2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1888)
"On the Occurrence of Aluminium in Certain Vascular cryptogams." By AH CHURCH, MA, FCS Communicated by Dr. JH GILBERT, FRS .Received March 2V, 1888. ..."

3. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physical by Julius Sachs (1882)
"VASCULAR cryptogams. UNDER this term are included in one group the Ferns, Equisetaceae ... in Vascular cryptogams, the form of a thallus ; it never attains, ..."

4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1880)
"On the Classification of cryptogams.1 By ALFRED W. BENNETT, MA, B.Sc., FLS, ... In the most recent classification of cryptogams, that by Sachs, ..."

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