Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Producing male and female gametangia in different structures or plants, as in some algae and fungi.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having the zygospores formed only as the result of the conjugation of hyphæ from two different strains: said of zygospore-forming plants.
Wiktionary
- adj. Producing male and female reproductive structures in different plants.
Etymologies
- hetero- + Greek thallos, young shoot; see thallo- + -ic.
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