Crossword clues for thallophyte
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.
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.
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
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 fungus, lichens and algae and occasionally bryophytes, bacteria and the Myxomycota. have a hidden reproductive system and hence they are also called Cryptogamae (together with ferns), as opposed to Phanerogamae. The thallophytes are defined as having undifferentiated bodies ( thalli), as opposed to cormophytes (Cormophyta) with roots and stems.
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.