cryptogamic

American  

[krip-tuh-gam-ik] / ˌkrɪp təˈgæm ɪk /

adjective

1. Botany. being a cryptogam or relating to or characteristic of cryptogams.

2. having or being a crustlike soil surface containing lichens, mosses, and other organic material.

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Example Sentences

Is it not so with Cryptogamic plants; have not most of the species wide ranges, in those genera which are mundane?

From Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Darwin, Francis, Sir

It is figured in Greville’s “Scottish Cryptogamic Flora,” plate 54.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

It was farther augmented by him, and reprinted in 1696, together with a description of the Cryptogamic plants, which had hitherto received little attention.

From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William

The group of Cryptogamic plants generally known as "Club-mosses."

From The Ancient Life History of the Earth A Comprehensive Outline of the Principles and Leading Facts of Palæontological Science by Nicholson, Henry Alleyne

Marsilea quadrifoliata.—A large plant of this species—the only Cryptogamic plant known to sleep—with some leaves pinned open, was exposed for 1 h.

From The Power of Movement in Plants by Darwin, Charles