Definition of Cryptogamic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to a cryptogam.

Exact synonyms: Cryptogamous
Partainyms: Cryptogam, Cryptogam
Derivative terms: Cryptogam, Cryptogam

Definition of Cryptogamic

1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the cryptogams ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cryptogamic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cryptogamic

cryptocoryne
cryptocracies
cryptocracy
cryptocrystalline
cryptodepression
cryptodepressions
cryptodidymus
cryptoexotic
cryptoexotics
cryptofascism
cryptofascist
cryptofascistic
cryptofascists
cryptogame
cryptogamic (current term)
cryptogamist
cryptogamists
cryptogamous
cryptogams
cryptogenic
cryptogenic cirrhosis
cryptogenic epilepsy
cryptogenic infection
cryptogenic pyaemia
cryptogenic septicaemia
cryptogram
cryptogrammatic
cryptogrammatically
cryptogramme

Literary usage of Cryptogamic

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

1. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London by Linnean Society of London (1827)
"Some Account of a Collection of cryptogamic Plants from the Ionian Islands. ... of the errors with which cryptogamic botany is already so much incumbered. ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"... of New York offer two summer courses in botany : one on the general morphology of planta by Dr. W. Arthur Bas- tedo ; the other on cryptogamic botany by ..."

3. Catalogueby Colorado State Library, Washburn Observatory, Manton Free Library, Exeter, R.I. Manton Free Library, Woodman Astronomical Library, Exeter (R.I.) by Colorado State Library, Washburn Observatory, Manton Free Library, Exeter, R.I. Manton Free Library, Woodman Astronomical Library, Exeter (R.I.) (1884)
"¡¡+238 L'pool, 1854 2.1 Grevillea : a Quarterly Record of cryptogamic Botany; ed. by MC Cooke. v. 9-11. Illus 3 v. 1881-3 С Greenough, Horatio. ..."

4. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes, Henry George Bohn (1865)
"... of new or little known foreign Mosses and other cryptogamic Plants, bond. 1818-20, 8vo. 2 vols. 176 coloured plates, pub. 8/. 8s. now $L 3s. ..."

5. Transactions of the Botanical Society by Botanical Society of Edinburgh (1850)
"Guernsey does not appear to be very prolific in cryptogamic plants—a variety of causes tend to produce this result—the open nature-of the country; ..."

6. Rhodora by New England Botanical Club (1899)
"... and a large and valuable cryptogamic collection, which is not yet fully classified. The club has undertaken the preparation of a critical check-list of ..."

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