Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plant of the group Protophyta.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Any unicellular plant, or plant forming only a plasmodium, having reproduction only by fission, gemmation, or cell division.
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- noun biology Any of various primitive organisms such as the
slime molds
Etymologies
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proto- + -phyte
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