Definition of Thallophytic

1. Adjective. Pertaining to or characteristic of thallophytes.

Partainyms: Thallophyte
Derivative terms: Thallophyte

Definition of Thallophytic

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thallophytic

thallious
thallium
thallium 201
thallium heart scan
thallium poisoning
thallium radioisotopes
thallium stress test
thalliums
thalloan
thallogen
thallogens
thalloid
thallophyte
thallophytes
thallophytic (current term)
thallotoxicosis
thallous
thallus
thalluses
thalmencephalon
thalweg
thalwege
thalwegs
thame
thamnophile
thamnophiles
thamnophilid
thamnophilids

Literary usage of Thallophytic

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

1. Truth and Error: Or, The Science of Intellection by John Wesley Powell (1898)
"... the thallophytic structure in planes is still predominant, but roots are developed, the bodies are of more or less cylindrical form, ..."

2. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"... humus is completely permeated by fine mycelial hyphae, and that all dead stems, branches, and leaves nourish a rich thallophytic flora of saprophytes. ..."

3. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"While thallophytic parasites probably have passed through an intermediate saprophytic stage, this may not have been the case in seed plants. ..."

4. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"While thallophytic parasites probably have passed through an intermediate saprophytic stage, this may not have been the case in seed plants. ..."

5. The American Geologist by Newton Horace Winchell (1899)
"FH Knowlton, and I am indebted to them for the remark that the markings could not be those referable to wood, but might possibly be thallophytic. ..."

6. Botany for High Schools and Colleges by Charles Edwin Bessey (1880)
"... on the other they are held to be algae belonging to entirely different thallophytic groups. 4. It must at once be evident to any one that the actual ..."

7. Plant Indicators: The Relation of Plant Communities to Process and Practice by Frederic Edward Clements (1920)
"Raunkiaer ignores taxonomy altogether and Warming practically does the same, with the exception of the thallophytic forms, in which taxonomic form and ..."

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