CRYPTOGAMIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cryptogamia mean? 

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

1. in former classification systems: one of two major plant divisions, including all plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, mosses, algae, fungi

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRYPTOGAMIA (noun)

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Meaning:

In former classification systems: one of two major plant divisions, including all plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, mosses, algae, fungi

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Cryptogamia" is a kind of...):

division ((botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum)

Holonyms ("Cryptogamia" is a member of...):

kingdom Plantae; plant kingdom; Plantae ((botany) the taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants)

Antonym:

Phanerogamae (in former classification systems: one of two major plant divisions, including all seed-bearing plants; superseded by the division Spermatophyta)