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nounformerly recognized taxonomic group including all flowerless and seedless plants that reproduce by means of spores: ferns, mosses, algae, fungitype of:
Definition that contains cryptogam
- cryptogamic of or relating to a cryptogam
- cryptogamous of or relating to a 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