cryptogamous
Americanadjective
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Azote and phosphorus having been abundantly found in several cryptogamous plants, an appeal to chemistry would be useless to determine whether this organized substance belonged to the animal or vegetable kingdom.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Ross, Thomasina
They are followed again by higher cryptogamous plants, especially ferns and club-mosses.
From The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality by Zimmermann, G. A.
Riccia, rik′si-a, n. a genus of cryptogamous plants.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
Depauperated Ferns.—The preceding illustrations have been taken from flowering plants chiefly, but a similar defective development is manifested in cryptogamous plants.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Masters, Maxwell T.
Crime is cryptogamous and flourishes in concealment, so that not only does falsehood facilitate it, but certain types of lies often cause and are caused by it.
From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley
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