n :  a plant (as a fern, moss, alga, or fungus) reproducing by spores and not producing flowers or seed cryp*to*gam*ic or  cryp*tog*a*mous  adj 
 
 
 
Similar sounding terms:  Cryp·to·ga·mia 
 
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