adjective
- relating to or denoting plants that reproduce by spores rather than seeds, such as ferns, mosses, and fungi
Usage: botanical
Examples
- The forest floor was covered with cryptogamic plants like mosses and ferns.
- Botanists study cryptogamic vegetation in humid environments.
- Cryptogamic species thrive in the shaded understory of the rainforest.
- The greenhouse maintained special conditions for cryptogamic plant cultivation.
- Cryptogamic flora plays an important role in forest ecosystems.
- Students learned to identify cryptogamic plants during their field study.