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
Liverwort, any plant of the cryptogamic family Hepatic�, allied to mosses.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
Darwin speaks of Terra del Fuego as the only country where cryptogamic plants form a staple article of food.
From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Taylor, Thomas
Either cryptogamic vegetation or the earth borne down from upper Africa is still seen to redden the river, usually dark, but not so as to destroy the fish.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus by Chadwick, G. A.
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