cryptogam

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The cryptogam, formed of spherical cells with a few filaments only, grows in the hair follicles and on the cuticle, and thus a crust often forms around the root of a hair.

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  1. noun A member of a formerly recognized taxonomic group that included all seedless plants and plantlike organisms, such as mosses, algae, ferns, and fungi.

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  • The cryptogam, formed of spherical cells with a few filaments only, grows in the hair follicles and on the cuticle, and thus a crust often forms around the root of a hair. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
  • Gemiasmas produce ague, it is by no means proved that no other cryptogam may not produce malaria. —  Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883
  • The insect which seeks it does not come from a distance; it inhabits the places wherein the cryptogam is found. —  Social Life in the Insect World
  • The still wider evolution, not of solitary individuals, but of all the individuals within each province -- in the vegetal world from the unicellular cryptogam to the highest phanerogam, in the animal world from the amorphous amœba to Man -- is at least suspected, the gradual rise of types being at all events a fact. —  Natural Law in the Spiritual World
  • The inhabitants of the poplar have disappeared, perhaps long ago, as is proved by the mycelium of the agaric; the insect would not gnaw and bore its way through timber all permeated with the felt-like growth of the cryptogam. —  The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles
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  1. From New Latin Cryptogamia, former group name : crypto- + -gamia, -gamy.

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  1. from New Latin cryptogamus: see cryptogamous.
 

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/ˈkrɪptəgæm/
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