aëtheogam

A form of aetheogam — A cryptogam; a plant of the obsolete taxonomic class Cryptogamia, having neither stamina nor pistils, and therefore no proper flowers, such as an alga, fern, fungus, lichen or moss.

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Meanings

nounaëtheogam (plural aëtheogams)

plural aëtheogams

  1. datedDated form of aetheogam.

    Aëtheogams, plants furnished with air vessels and stomates or air pores.

    1839, John Lindley, School Botany, volume ix, page 151
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    aëtheʹos (ἀήθης, unusual), in compounds = unusual ; aëtheogamʹic, aëtheogʹamous (γάμος, marriage), synonymous with cryptogamic.

    1900, Benjamin Daydon Jackson, A Glossary of Botanic Terms: With Their Derivation and Accent, page 7 ^〃 (4ᵗʰ Ed.; Duckworth)

    Synonyms: cryptogam

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Also see
cryptogam
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