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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

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proto- + -phyte

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