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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024cryp•to•gam (krip′tə gam′),USA pronunciation n. [Bot.]- 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 pronunciation cryp′to•gam′i•cal, adj. cryp•tog′a•mist, n. cryp•tog′a•my, n. |