thallophyten.
/ˈθaləfʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈθæləˌfaɪt/ Botany.
A plant belonging to the lowest of the great groups in the vegetable kingdom, comprising those of which the vegetative body is a thallus, including Algæ, Fungi, and Lichens; a cellular cryptogam; = Lindley's thallogen n.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > spore or sporule > cryptogam or plant having spores > [noun] > parts of > thallus > plant having or thallophyte
thallogen1846
thallophyte1854
amphigen1879
1854 J. H. Balfour in Encycl. Brit. V. 142/2 These tribes, from having no foliaceous axis but simply a cellular expansion, have been called Thallogens or Thallophytes.
1875 A. W. Bennett & W. T. T. Dyer tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. 207 Thallophytes. Under this term are comprised Algæ and Fungi (Lichens being also included in the latter section).
1885 G. L. Goodale in A. Gray & G. L. Goodale Bot. Text-bk. (ed. 6) II. i. iii. 164 In the thallophytes there is no clear distinction of leaf and axis.
Derivatives
thallophytic adj. /-ˈfɪtɪk/ Botany of or pertaining to the thallophytes.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > spore or sporule > cryptogam or plant having spores > [adjective] > of or having parts > of or having thallus > of plant having or thallophyte
amphigenous1835
thallogenous1854
thallogenica1856
thallophytic1891
1891 in Cent. Dict.
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