Definify.com
Webster 1913 Edition
Protophyte
Pro′to-phyte
,Noun.
[
Proto-
+ Gr. [GREEK] a plant.] (Bot.)
Any unicellular plant, or plant forming only a plasmodium, having reproduction only by fission, gemmation, or cell division.
☞ The protophytes (
Protophyta
) are by some botanists considered an independent branch or class of the vegetable kingdom, and made to include the lowest forms of both fungi and algæ, as slime molds, Bacteria, the nostocs, etc. Cf. Carpophyte
, and Oophyte
. Definition 2024
protophyte
protophyte
English
Noun
protophyte (plural protophytes)
- (biology) Any of various primitive organisms such as the slime molds
See also
Translations
(biology) any of various primitive organisms
|