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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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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
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...
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.
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 .
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.