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