THALLOPHYTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thallophyte mean? 

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

1. any of a group of cryptogamic organisms consisting principally of a thallus and thus showing no differentiation into stem and root and leaf

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• THALLOPHYTE (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:

Nouns denoting plants

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)