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Pertaining to, or resulting from, sexual connection; formed by the union of the male and female elements.

Not having visible organs of reproduction, as flowerless plants; agamous.

In an agamic manner.

Relating to apogamy.

Having, beside the usual flowers, other minute, closed flowers, without petals or with minute petals; -- said of certain species of plants which possess flowers of two or more kinds, the closed ones being so constituted as to insure self-fertilization. Darwin.

Of or pertaining to the series Cryptogamia, or to plants of that series.

Pertaining to, or involving, monogamy.

Same as Phænogamous.

Having visible flowers containing distinct stamens and pistils; -- said of plants.

Same as Phænogamian, Phænogamic, etc.

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.

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

One skilled in cryptogamic botany.

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

That one of the two primary divisions of the vegetable kingdom which contains the phanerogamic, or flowering, plants.

An egglike germ produced by the agamic females of some insects and other animals, and by the larvæ of certain insects. It is capable of development without fertilization. See Illust. of Pædogenesis.

Capable of producing seeds; phænogamic.

An asexual zooid, usually forming one of a series of larval forms in the agamic reproduction of various trematodes and other parasitic worms. The sporocyst generally develops from an egg, but in its turn produces other larvæ by internal budding, or by the subdivision of a part or all of its contents into a number of mi…