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phyton Bot.|ˈfaɪtɒn, ˈfɪtɒn|
[a. F. phyton, a. Gr. ϕυτόν a plant, f. ϕύειν to produce.]
A plant-unit; = phytomer: see quot. 1898.
1848E. Forbes Naked-eyed Medusæ 88 The several phytons comprising the first bud or plumule. 1854Balfour Outl. Bot. i. iii. 267 The dicotyledonous embryo then is composed of two leaves or two unifoliar phytons..united together so as to form one axis. 1880Gray Struct. Bot. (ed. 6) 7 These ultimate similar parts..which are endowed with or may produce all the fundamental organs of vegetation, were by Gaudichaud called Phytons. 1898Bailey Plant Lessons lxxiii. 380 The propagation-unit in vegetative multiplication is the smallest part of root, stem or leaf which will grow when severed from the parent (although this is not a morphological or structural unit in the plant-body); and, for the purpose of terminology, this part may be called a phyton. |