CRYPTOGAM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cryptogam mean? 

• CRYPTOGAM (noun)
  The noun CRYPTOGAM has 1 sense:

1. formerly recognized taxonomic group including all flowerless and seedless plants that reproduce by means of spores: ferns, mosses, algae, fungi

  Familiarity information: CRYPTOGAM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRYPTOGAM (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:

Nouns denoting plants

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)