[krip-tuh-gam] 
| any of the Cryptogamia, a former primary division of plants that have no true flowers or seeds and that reproduce by spores, as the ferns, mosses, fungi, and algae. |
| cryp·to·gam (krĭp'tə-gām') n. A member of a formerly recognized taxonomic group that included all seedless plants and plantlike organisms, such as mosses, algae, ferns, and fungi. [From New Latin Cryptogamia, former group name : crypto- + -gamia, -gamy.] cryp'to·gam'ic, cryp·tog'a·mous (-tŏg'ə-məs) adj. |
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