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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Each class of flowerless or cryptogamic plants requires special treatment for the herbarium.
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The pistillidium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants.
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Liverwort, any plant of the cryptogamic family Hepatic�, allied to mosses.—adj.
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Mite-galls occur on the sycamore, pear, plum, ash, alder, vine, mulberry and many other plants; and formerly, e.g. the gall known as Erineum quercinum, on the leaves of Quercus Cerris, were taken for cryptogamic structures.
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It is an established fact, that the cryptogamic plants of cellular construction, are in different zones nearly the same.
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