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In former classification systems one of two major plant divisions, including all plants that do not bear seeds ferns, mosses, algae, fungi
Answer for the clue "In former classification systems one of two major plant divisions, including all plants that do not bear seeds ferns, mosses, algae, fungi ", 11 letters:
cryptogamia
Word definitions for cryptogamia in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cryptogamia \Cryp`to*ga"mi*a\ (kr?p`t?-g?"m?-?), n.; pl. Cryptogami[ae] (-?). [NL., fr. Gr. krypto`s hidden, secret + ga`mos marriage.] (Bot.) The series or division of flowerless plants, or those never having true stamens and pistils, but propagated by ...
Usage examples of cryptogamia.
The kauri pines were not exactly kauri, nor were the tree ferns quite the same Cryptogamia that flourished on the Aucklands and Macquarie.
Perhaps he saunters into a country church-yard, and there finds amongst the rank grass and moss-grown and neglected memorials of the silent multitude, one trim and well-tended monument, uninvaded by cryptogamia, free from all stain of the weather, and the surrounding grassy sward neatly mown and fenced in, it may be, with budding willow branches or a circle of clipped box.