Cryptogamia (original) (raw)
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In former classification systems: one of two major plant divisions, including all plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, mosses, algae, fungi
Classified under:
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Phanerogamae (in former classification systems: one of two major plant divisions, including all seed-bearing plants; superseded by the division Spermatophyta)