cryptogamous
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
On Herald Island the common polar cryptogamous vegetation is well represented and developed.
Acrogens, or Acrogenous Plants, a name for the vascular cryptogamous plants, 156.
From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa
Immediately above this bed are found what seem to be traces of land-plants, in the shape of the spores of a cryptogamous plant.
From Story of Creation as Told By Theology and By Science by Ackland, T. S. (Thomas Suter)
The total number of these gigantic cryptogamous plants amounts at present to 25 species, that of the palm-trees to 80.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Ross, Thomasina
Fern, fern, n. one of the beautiful class of higher or vascular cryptogamous plants—the natural order Filices.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
