phyton
noun
phy·ton ˈfī-ˌtän 
1
: a structural unit of a plant consisting of a leaf and its associated portion of stem
2
: the smallest part of a stem, root, or leaf that when severed may grow into a new plant
phytonic
fī-ˈtä-nik
adjective 
Word History
Etymology
borrowed from French, borrowed from Greek phytón "plant" — more at phyto-
Note: Term introduced by the French botanist Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré (1789-1854) in "Recherches générales sur l'organographie, la physiologie et l'organogénie des végétaux," Mémoires présentés par divers savants à l'Académie Royale des Sciences de l'Institut de France: Sciences mathématiques et physiques, tome huitième (1843), p. 6. Offprints of the article, apparently released before the entire volume was published, are dated 1841.
First Known Use
1846, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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- joint tariff
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