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noun
An undifferentiated plant body, such as in algae.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
Any plant body lacking vascular tissue.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
a plant body without true stems or roots or leaves or vascular system; characteristic of the thallophytes
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: plant part, plant structure
Narrower terms: crustose thallus
History
From Ancient Greek θαλλός (thallós, “young shoot, twig”), from Proto-Indo-European *dhelh1- (“to bloom”).
Across languages
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