THALLOPHYTA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Thallophyta mean? 

• THALLOPHYTA (noun)
  The noun THALLOPHYTA has 1 sense:

1. used only in former classifications: comprising what is now considered a heterogeneous assemblage of flowerless and seedless organisms: algae; bacteria; fungi; lichens

  Familiarity information: THALLOPHYTA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THALLOPHYTA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Used only in former classifications: comprising what is now considered a heterogeneous assemblage of flowerless and seedless organisms: algae; bacteria; fungi; lichens

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

division ((botany) taxonomic unit of plants corresponding to a phylum)

Holonyms ("Thallophyta" is a member of...):

kingdom Plantae; plant kingdom; Plantae ((botany) the taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct plants)