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cryptogam in botany, term used to denote a plant that produces spores, as in algae , fungi , mosses , and ferns , but not seeds. The term cryptogam, from the Greek kryptos, meaning "hidden," and gamos, meaning "marriage," was coined by 19th-century ...

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