Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plant characterized by the production of zygospores; a plant in which reproduction consists in a confluence of two similar protoplasmic masses. See cut under
conjugation , 4.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Any plant of a proposed class or grand division (Zygophytes, Zygophyta, or Zygosporeæ), in which reproduction consists in the union of two similar cells. Cf.
oöphyte .
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- noun botany Any plant of a proposed class or grand division in which reproduction consists in the union of two similar cells.
Etymologies
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zygote + -phyte
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