Definition of Thallophyte

1. Noun. Any of a group of cryptogamic organisms consisting principally of a thallus and thus showing no differentiation into stem and root and leaf.

Generic synonyms: Cryptogam
Derivative terms: Thallophytic

Definition of Thallophyte

1. n. Same as Thallogen.

2. n. A plant belonging to the Thallophyta.

Definition of Thallophyte

1. Noun. (botany) Any of a large number of plants that consist of a thallus only, with no flower, leaves etc. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Thallophyte

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Thallophyte

1. Same as Thallogen. Origin: Gr. Young shoot + plant. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thallophyte

thalliferous
thalline
thallious
thallium
thallium 201
thallium heart scan
thallium poisoning
thallium radioisotopes
thallium stress test
thalliums
thalloan
thallogen
thallogens
thalloid
thallophyte (current term)
thallophytes
thallophytic
thallotoxicosis
thallous
thallus
thalluses
thalmencephalon
thalweg
thalwege
thalwegs
thame
thamnophile
thamnophiles

Literary usage of Thallophyte

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

1. Applied and Economic Botany: Especially Adapted for the Use of Students in by Henry Kraemer (1914)
"However, it must not be thought that every thallophyte is characterized in this ... We see, therefore, that the word thallophyte is a general term and is ..."

2. Applied and Economic Botany for Students in Technical and Agricultural by Henry Kraemer (1916)
"However, it must not be thought that every thallophyte is characterized in this ... We see, therefore, that the word thallophyte is a general term and is ..."

3. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1915)
"To its help has come a little thallophyte so fine as to have gone ... Together they work, the thallophyte securing food for both and the Monotropa paying it ..."

4. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1917)
"To its help has come a little thallophyte so fine as to have gone ... Together they work, the thallophyte securing food for both and the Monotropa paying it ..."

5. Botany, with Agricultural Applications by John Nathan Martin (1920)
"One might think such a plant too complex to be classed as a thallophyte, for, according to definition, a thallophyte is a plant not differentiated into ..."

6. Applied and Economic Botany for Students in Technical and Agricultural by Wilfred William Robbins (1896)
"... for all thallophyte-spores produced asexually; EICHLER,'using the same term, applied it to the asexual motionless spores of fungi; ..."

7. Botany for Agricultural Students by John Nathan Martin (1919)
"One might think such a plant too complex to be classed as a thallophyte, for, according to definition, a thallophyte is a plant not differentiated into ..."

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