Definition of Phytons

1. phyton [n] - See also: phyton

Lexicographical Neighbors of Phytons

phytomedicine
phytomedicines
phytomenadione
phytomere
phytomeres
phytomeron
phytometrics
phytomining
phytomitogen
phyton
phytonadione
phytoncide
phytoncides
phytonic
phytonomy
phytons (current term)
phytonutrient
phytonutrients
phytopathogen
phytopathogenic
phytopathogens
phytopathological
phytopathologist
phytopathologists
phytopathology
phytophaga
phytophage
phytophageous
phytophages
phytophagic

Literary usage of Phytons

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Principles of Botany: As Exemplified in the Cryptogamia. For the Use of by Harland Coultas (1853)
"... posed phytons or buds which are developed successively on its stem or axis of growth, and differ only from "the parent plant developed on the soil," in ..."

2. Truth and Error: Or, The Science of Intellection by John Wesley Powell (1898)
"phytons being composed of cells are homologous with cells, and higher plants being composed of phytons are homologous with ..."

3. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1850)
"The stem-part of each, which soon belongs in part to all the phytons above, ... Besides the lineal succession of phytons, each one at a later period ..."

4. What May be Learned from a Tree by Harland Coultas (1863)
"One generation of these phytons perishes every year, but not before each ... If, therefore, the leaves are regarded as phytons or individual plants, ..."

5. On Parthenogenesis; Or, The Successive Production of Procreating Individuals by Richard Owen (1849)
"A flowering plant, with stamens and pistils in the same flower, is not a hermaphrodite individual; but is an organically associated colony of phytons, ..."

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