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 whose growth takes place at the tip of the main stem, especially the cryptogam 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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