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Definition of Cryptogamia
1. Noun. In former classification systems: one of two major plant divisions, including all plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, mosses, algae, fungi.
Group relationships: Kingdom Plantae, Plant Kingdom, Plantae
Antonyms: Phanerogamae
Definition of Cryptogamia
1. n. The series or division of flowerless plants, or those never having true stamens and pistils, but propagated by spores of various kinds.
Medical Definition of Cryptogamia
1. A montaxonomic division of the plant kingdom containing all forms of plant life that do not reproduce by means of seeds; included are the algae, bacteria, fungi, lichens, mosses, liverworts, ferns, horsetails, and club mosses. Origin: crypto-+ G. Gamos, marriage (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cryptogamia
Literary usage of Cryptogamia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants: With an Easy Introduction to the by William Withering (1801)
"Cryptogamia. 1.T is well known, that the attention of Linnaeus was much less ...
But the plants of the Cryptogamia Class, not falling under his peculiar ..."
2. An Introduction to Systematic and Physiological Botany by Thomas Nuttall (1827)
"OF THE CLASS Cryptogamia. THIS class presents a grand exception to all the ...
The plants of Cryptogamia form, indeed, a separate grand division of the ..."
3. Manual of Botany for North America: Containing Generic and Specific by Amos Eaton (1836)
"... Plante of the five lower orders of ihe Class Cryptogamia, are not made the
subject of analysis in schools, so frequently as ..."
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