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Noun: Cryptogamia
  1. In former classification systems: one of two major plant divisions, including all plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, mosses, algae, fungi

Type of: division

Antonym: Phanerogamae

Part of: kingdom Plantae, plant kingdom, Plantae

Encyclopedia: Cryptogamia