cryptogams

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A form of cryptogam — 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.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of cryptogam
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