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adj. - Of or relating to a plant reproducing by means of spores and not producing flowers or seed (as ferns, mosses, algae, or fungi)

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  • "A species of report," said Donal, "very likely to arise by a kind of cryptogamic generation!
  • Islands; and the Reverend J.M. Berkeley has described my cryptogamic plants.
  • These closed cryptogamic communities occur in protected areas at lower elevations.
  • Their affinities and analogies to other cryptogamic families, and to the Phanerogamia.
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