Definition of Prothalli

1. Noun. (plural of prothallus) ¹

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Definition of Prothalli

1. prothallus [n] - See also: prothallus

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prothalli

protestator
protestators
protested
protester
protesters
protesting
protesting(a)
protestingly
protestor
protestors
protests
proteuses
prothalamia
prothalamion
prothalamium
prothalli (current term)
prothallia
prothallium
prothalluses
prothese
protheses
prothesis
prothetelic
prothetelous
prothetely
prothetic
prothonotarial
prothonotaries
prothonotary

Literary usage of Prothalli

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"Many prothalli may, in addition to multiplication by adventitious shoots, ... The male prothalli are, from the beginning, incapable of vegetative ..."

2. Annals of Botany by IDEAL (Project) (1888)
"Although I have been able to study a great number of prothalli of L. carinatum, ... Blume, I have only had the opportunity of studying a few prothalli, ..."

3. Report of the Annual Meeting (1901)
"It is at first button-shaped, but by branching the older prothalli come to consist of a number of ... The prothalli, which have not been observed to branch, ..."

4. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"The prothalli reproduce readily by gemmae, as also by progressive decay, which separates the ... 180. its prothallus appears tO be Variable prothalli of ..."

5. Strasburger's Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger, Hans Fitting, William Henry Lang (1921)
"In the case of L. t'nun- datum, the prothalli of which are found on damp peaty soil, ... -Development of the embryo in . , . the prothalli are poor in ..."

6. Evolution by Atrophy in Biology and Sociology by Jean Demoor, Jean Massart, Emile Vandervelde (1899)
"the prothalli are unisexual, but the spores from which they are produced are alike. Finally, in the allies of Selaginella which are the Cryptogams most ..."

7. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal (1862)
"These, then, are the more common modes in which prothalli develop, the lobes in all these cases being very irregular, and indefinite in form. ..."

8. Proceedings by Bristol Naturalists' Society (1876)
"On March 17 several of these prothalli were examined microscopically, both by myself and by the Rev. Mr. Aubrey, of Salisbury (to whom I am indebted for aid ..."

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