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  • noun cryptogam

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  • But as this species is cryptogame, carrying on the business of nidification, incubation, and the support of its young in the dark, it would not be so easy to ascertain the time of breeding, were it not for the coming forth of the broods, which appear much about the time, or rather somewhat earlier than those of the swallow.

    The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 2 Gilbert White 1756

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