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Definition of Cryptogamous
1. Adjective. Of or relating to a cryptogam.
Definition of Cryptogamous
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the cryptogams ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cryptogamous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cryptogamous
Literary usage of Cryptogamous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"SERIES IL cryptogamous OR FLOWERLESS PLANTS. PLANTS never bearing true flowers,
... cryptogamous plants with a distinct axis or stem, growing from the apex, ..."
2. Journal of Science and the Arts by Royal Institution of Great Britain (1818)
"On cryptogamous and Agamous Vegetation. From the French ofC. F. BRISSEAU MIRBEL.
JL HE subject of cryptogamous and agamous vegetation has been purposely ..."
3. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1842)
"cryptogamous Plants developed on the internal surface of the air-cells of an ...
The growth of cryptogamous vegetables upon living animals has been placed ..."
4. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"Even the beginner in botany should have some general idea of what cryptogamous
plants are, and what are the obvious distinctions of the principal families. ..."
5. Flora of the Southern United States: Containing an Abridged Description of by Alvan Wentworth Chapman, Daniel Cady Eaton (1860)
"cryptogamous OR FLOWERLESS PLANTS. VEGETABLES destitute of proper flowers, and
producing, in the place of seeds, minute homogeneous bodies (spores) ..."
6. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States: Including the District by Asa Gray, Sereno Watson (1889)
"... SERIES П. cryptogamous OR FLOWERLESS PLANTS. VEGETABLES destitute of proper
flowers (ie having no stamens nor pistils), and producing instead of seeds ..."
7. An Historical and Descriptive Account of Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe by James Nicol (1844)
"... Trees—Iceland—Comparison with Scotland and Lapland—cryptogamous Vegetation—
Trees and Shrubs—Distribution of Vegetation—Plants in volcanic Soils—Near ..."
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