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thallophyte Bot.|ˈθæləfaɪt|
[f. mod.L. Thallophyta, pl. f. Gr. θαλλό-ς green twig + ϕυτόν plant.]
A plant belonging to the lowest of the great groups in the vegetable kingdom, comprising those of which the vegetative body is a thallus, including Algæ, Fungi, and Lichens; a cellular cryptogam; = Lindley's thallogen.
1854Balfour in Encycl. Brit. (ed. 8) V. 142/2 These tribes, from having no foliaceous axis but simply a cellular expansion, have been called Thallogens or Thallophytes. 1875Bennett & Dyer tr. Sachs' Bot. 207 Thallophytes. Under this term are comprised Algæ and Fungi (Lichens being also included in the latter section). 1885G. L. Goodale Physiol. Bot. (1892) 164.
Hence thallophytic |-ˈfɪtɪk| a. Bot., of or pertaining to the thallophytes.
1891in Cent. Dict. |