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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. formerly recognized taxonomic group including all flowerless and seedless plants that reproduce by means of spores: ferns, mosses, algae, fungi;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Cryptogam \Cryp"to*gam\ (kr?p"t?-g?m), n. [Cf. F. cryptogame. See Cryptogamia.] (Bot.) A plant belonging to the Cryptogamia. --Henslow. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

cryptogam n 1: formerly recognized taxonomic group including all flowerless and seedless plants that reproduce by means of spores: ferns, mosses, algae, fungi