— cryptogamic, cryptogamous /krip tog"euh meuhs/ , cryptogamical , adj. — cryptogamist , n. — cryptogamy , n.
/krip"teuh gam'/ , n. Bot.
any 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.
[ 1840-50; Cryptogamia. See CRYPTO-, -GAMY ]