Associations to the word «Cryptogamia»

Dictionary definition

CRYPTOGAMIA, noun. In former classification systems: one of two major plant divisions, including all plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, mosses, algae, fungi.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats