thallophyte

Meaning

Noun

  • 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.

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Origin

  • From Translingual Thallophyta (division). Surface reading of thallus + -phyte.

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