Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An aerogenous plant.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A plant of the highest class of cryptogams, including the ferns, etc. See
cryptogamia . - noun (Geol.) the age of coal plants, or the carboniferous era.
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- noun biology any
flowerless plant whosegrowth takes place at thetip of the mainstem , especially thecryptogam ferns
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- noun any flowerless plant such as a fern (pteridophyte) or moss (bryophyte) in which growth occurs only at the tip of the main stem
Etymologies
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From acro- + -gen.
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