Word.ws English Dictionary

cryptogame

cryptogame is the alternative form of cryptogam.

Meaning of cryptogam

Noun

cryptogam (plural cryptogams)

  1. Any plant that reproduces using spores (rather than seeds), formerly placed in the taxonomic group Cryptogamae, which included ferns, mosses, algae, fungi, lichens and liverworts.
    • In the absence of phanerogams, the cryptogams — principally the algae, mosses, and lichens — are the dominant forms of plant life.1956, George A. Llano, Botanical Research Essential to a Knowledge of Antarctica, A. P. Crary, L. M. Gould, E. O. Hulburt, Hugh Obishaw, Waldo E. Smith (editors), Antarctica in the International...
    Synonyms:
    aëtheogam

Forms of cryptogame

pluralcryptogames

Questions about cryptogame

What is cryptogame the alternative form of?
Cryptogame is the alternative form of cryptogam.

Words near cryptogame in the dictionary

  1. cryptoforestry
  2. cryptoforests
  3. cryptofunction
  4. cryptofunctions
  5. cryptogam
  6. cryptogame
  7. cryptogames
  8. cryptogamian
  9. cryptogamic
  10. cryptogamical
  11. cryptogamist

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: cryptogame (page history and authors); cryptogam (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “cryptogame.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/cryptogame. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.