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THALLOPHYTE
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Any of a group of cryptogamic organisms consisting principally of a thallus and thus showing no differentiation into stem and root and leaf
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("thallophyte" is a kind of...):
cryptogam (formerly recognized taxonomic group including all flowerless and seedless plants that reproduce by means of spores: ferns, mosses, algae, fungi)
Derivation:
thallophytic (pertaining to or characteristic of thallophytes)