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n. (plural of cryptogam English)
Usage examples of "cryptogams".
The gray-brown surface was already covered with miniature black stacks of cryptogams, the dry microscopic plants that held the desert soil together.
He had dealt with the coleoptera and he was deep in the vascular cryptogams before the frigate turned her head north at last.
We were just having a little chat about the higher cryptogams, that's all.
When I come back from it I shall publish such papers on the cryptogams of Kamschatka that no one will ever set the mark of intelligence upon my head again.
Jack was taken up with sailing his ship and Stephen, quite apart from the preservation, classification and description of his Tristan da Cunha specimens, the rich harvest of extreme activity in a cruelly limited time on the lower parts of that scientifically unknown island, inhabited by numbers of nondescript cryptogams, probably several flowering plants (though this was the wrong season for them), a quantity of beetles and other insects, some spiders, and at least two peculiar birds, a finch and a thrush, and quite apart from his Malay, had his sick-berth to look after.
Stephen had received the visit of several acquaintances from the shore, the last of these bringing him specimens of four uncommon cryptogams that he had always longed to see.