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    CRYPTOGAMIA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    In former classification systems: one of two major plant divisions, including all plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, mosses, algae, fungiplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("Cryptogamia" is a kind of...):

    division ((botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum)

    Holonyms ("Cryptogamia" is a member of...):

    kingdom Plantae; plant kingdom; Plantae ((botany) the taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants)

    Antonym:

    Phanerogamae (in former classification systems: one of two major plant divisions, including all seed-bearing plants; superseded by the division Spermatophyta)

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