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A class of flowerless plants, embracing ferns, horsetails, club mosses, quillworts, and other like plants. See the Note under Cryptogamia.

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  1. n. pl. A class of class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/flowerless">flowerless plants, embracing ferns, horsetails, club mosses, quillworts, and other like plants. See the Note under Cryptogamia.
  2. A class of class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/flowerless">flowerless plants, embracing ferns, horsetails, club mosses, quillworts, and other like plants. See the Note under Cryptogamia. -- Pter"i*do*phyte`, n. Note: This is a modern term, devised to replace the older ones acrogens and vascular Cryptogamia.
  3. A class of class="def-link" href="https://vividlex.com/word/flowerless">flowerless plants, embracing ferns, horsetails, clubmosses, quillworts, and other like plants. See the Note underCryptogamia.-- Pter"i*do*phyte`, n.
  4. n containing all the vascular plants that do not bear seeds: ferns, horsetails, club mosses, and whisk ferns; in some classifications considered a subdivision of Tracheophyta