Botanyany of the Cryptogamia, a former primary division of plants that have no true flowers or seeds and that reproduce by spores, as the ferns, mosses, fungi, and algae.
Neo-Latin Cryptogamia. See crypto-, -gamy
1840–50;
cryp′to•gam′ic, cryp•tog•a•mous(krip tog′ə məs),USA pronunciationcryp′to•gam′i•cal, adj.cryp•tog′a•mist, n. cryp•tog′a•my, n.