Meaning

1 senses
  1. Any of very many primitive plants that consist of a thallus (plant body not differentiated into roots, stems and leaves), formerly collected in the obsolete taxonomic group Thallophyta.

    Thallophyt, Thalluspflanze

More definitions
  • any of a group of cryptogamic organisms consisting principally of a thallus and thus showing no differentiation into stem and root and leaf

Translations

2 languages
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By meaning 1
plant consisting of thallus only:

Origin

From translingual Thallophyta. Surface reading of thallus + -phyte (“plant”).

From translingual Thallophyta. Surface reading of thallus + -phyte (“plant”).

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Forms

plural: thallophytes
Singularthallophyte
Pluralthallophytes

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
plant consisting of thallus only:thallogen

Word family

7 related words

See also

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