Thallus Definition

thăləs
thalli, thalluses
noun
The nonvascular plant body of a thallophyte.
Webster's New World
The main body of an alga, fungus, or lichen.
American Heritage Medicine

Other Word Forms of Thallus

Noun

Singular:
thallus
Plural:
thalli

Origin of Thallus

  • From Ancient Greek θαλλός (thallos, “young shoot, twig"), from Proto-Indo-European *dÊ°al (“to bloom"),

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin green stalk from Greek thallos from thallein to sprout

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Thallus Sentence Examples

  • The Mosses and Liverworts include forms with a more or less leaf-like thallus, such as many of the liverworts, and forms in which the plant shows a differentiation into a stem bearing remarkably simple leaves, as in the true mosses.

  • This process may result in a considerable thickening of the thallus.

  • Thallophyta are the most lowly organized plants and include a great variety of forms, the vegetative portion of which consists of a single cell or a number of cells forming a more or less branched thallus.

  • The thallus in all cases consists of a branched filament of cells placed end to end, as in many of the Green Algae.

  • Or the thallus may have a leaf-like form, the branches from the central threads which form the midrib growing out mainly in one plane and forming a lamina, extended right and left of the midrib.

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Words Starting With

TTHTHA

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SUSLUS

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