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 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
We see it acting this reproductive part in the simplest manner in the cryptogamic plants.
From Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation by Robert Chambers
Of flowering plants there are, as far as at present is known, 185 species, and 40 cryptogamic species, making altogether 225; of this number I was fortunate enough to bring home 193.
From The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
In cannel coals the prevailing constituents are the spores of cryptogamic plants, algae being rare or in many cases absent.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 5 "Clervaux" to "Cockade" by Various
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