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A secret name; a name by which a person is known only to the initiated.

A colorless crystalline alkaloid obtained in small quantities from opium.

An order of flying, dromTinamou.

Wholly or completely concealing; incapable of being deciphered. Holocryptic cipher, a cipher so constructed as to afford no clew to its meaning to one ignorant of the key.

A plant of the highest class of cryptograms, including the ferns, etc. See Cryptogamia. The Age of Acrogens (Geol.), the age of coal plants, or the carboniferous era.

Propagated in an unusual way; cryptogamous.

Having no visible sexual organs; asexual. In Bot., cryptogamous.

A kind of seaweed; pl. the class of cellular cryptogamic plants which includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water confervæ, etc.

One of the mobile male reproductive bodies in the antheridia of cryptogams.

The pistillidium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants.

See Cryptogamia.

A vault or crypt in connection with a church, used as a repository for human bones disintered from their original burial places; a charnel house.

of, or containing, cells; of or pertaining to a cell or cells. Cellular plants, Cellular cryptogams (Bot.), those flowerless plants which have no ducts or fiber in their tissue, as mosses, fungi, lichens, and algæ. -- Cellular theory, or Cell theory (Biol.), a theory, according to which the essential element of every…

A cryptocrystalline, translucent variety of quartz, having usually a whitish color, and a luster nearly like wax. [Written also calcedony.]

, Menopoma, etc. They have permanent gill openings, but no external gills; -- called also Cryptobranchiata. [Written also Derotrema.]

words in the same language derived by different courses from the same original from; as, crypt and grot are doublets; also, guard and ward; yard and garden; abridge and abbreviate, etc.

A genus of vascular, cryptogamic, herbaceous plants; -- also called horsetails.

Having pistils and no stamens; pistillate; or, in cryptogamous plants, capable of receiving fertilization.

An order of cryptogamous plants, the Filices, which have their fructification on the back of the fronds or leaves. They are usually found in humid soil, sometimes grow epiphytically on trees, and in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size.

g no flowers. Flowerless plants, plants which have no true flowers, and produce no seeds; cryptigamous plants.