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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
.

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protophyte

protophyte

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Noun

protophyte (plural protophytes)

  1. (biology) Any of various primitive organisms such as the slime molds

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