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Any of a group of cryptogamic organisms consisting principally of a thallus and thus showing no differentiation into stem and root and leaf
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thallophyte
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The thallophytes ( Thallophyta or Thallobionta ) are a polyphyletic group of non-mobile organisms traditionally described as "thalloid plants", "relatively simple plants" or " lower plants ". They were a defunct division of kingdom Plantae that included ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thallophyte \Thal"lo*phyte\, n. [Gr. ? young shoot + -phyte.] (Bot.) A plant belonging to the Thallophyta. -- Thal`lo*phyt"ic , a. (Bot.) Same as Thallogen .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of a group of cryptogamic organisms consisting principally of a thallus and thus showing no differentiation into stem and root and leaf
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context botany English) Any of very many primitive plants that consist of a thallus (plant body not differentiated into roots, stems and leaf), formerly collected in the obsolete taxonomic group Thallophyta.
Usage examples of thallophyte.
Hamid-Jones took this to be an organic airmaking plant, probably filled with the oxygen-concentrating thallophytes with which the Martian desert had been sown by the early terraformers.
Most housing had been swallowed by beds of swampy fuzz, but a few buildings were so larded with chemical fungicides and brews of biological toxins that local bacilli and thallophytes had never established a foothold.