cryptogamic
Americanadjective
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Botany. being a cryptogam or relating to or characteristic of cryptogams.
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having or being a crustlike soil surface containing lichens, mosses, and other organic material.
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For thousands of years men looked at the cryptogamic mold called Penicillium notatum, but Dr. Fleming was the first to see its meaning.
From Time Magazine Archive
For thousands of years men looked at the cryptogamic mold called Penicillium notatum, but Dr. Fleming was the first to see its cryptic meaning.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two-thirds of the plants of the carboniferous era are of the cellular or cryptogamic kind, a proportion which would probably be much increased if we knew the whole Flora of that era.
From Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers
In cannel coals the prevailing constituents are the spores of cryptogamic plants, algae being rare or in many cases absent.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various
Distribution of cryptogamous plants.—It has been found that a great numerical proportion of the exceptions to the limitation of species to certain quarters of the globe occur in the various tribes of cryptogamic plants.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
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