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.
Example Sentences
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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 cryptic 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 meaning.
From Time Magazine Archive
Began as aid in cryptogamic botany, United States National Herbarium, 1899, and is now associate curator of the same.
From The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada by Tilton, George Henry
In every fresh specimen of cryptogamic which I placed beneath my instrument I believed that I discovered wonders of which the world was as yet ignorant.
From Masterpieces of Mystery In Four Volumes Mystic-Humorous Stories by French, Joseph Lewis
Of flowering plants, for example, there are 185 species at present known, and forty cryptogamic, making together 225.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir
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