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CRYPTOGAM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Formerly recognized taxonomic group including all flowerless and seedless plants that reproduce by means of spores: ferns, mosses, algae, fungi
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cryptogam" is a kind of...):
flora; plant; plant life ((botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cryptogam"):
thallophyte (any of a group of cryptogamic organisms consisting principally of a thallus and thus showing no differentiation into stem and root and leaf)
Derivation:
cryptogamic; cryptogamous (of or relating to a cryptogam)
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