THALLUS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: thalli

Meaning:

A plant body without true stems or roots or leaves or vascular system; characteristic of the thallophytes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("thallus" is a kind of...):

plant part; plant structure (any part of a plant or fungus)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "thallus"):

crustose thallus (thin crusty lichen thallus; adheres closely to or is embedded in the surface on which it grows)