Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a multicellular plant: corresponding to metazoön in zoölogy. See
Metaphyta .
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- noun biology Any
multicellular plant
Etymologies
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meta- + -phyte
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Examples
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Yochelson et al. 1993 interpreted the remains to be “metaphyte or metazoan body fossils and/or trace fossils, although evidence of their organic origin is still not conclusive.”
Glacier National Park Geology & Paleontology: Part 3 - Appekunny and Grinnell ReBecca Foster 2008
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Yochelson et al. 1993 interpreted the remains to be “metaphyte or metazoan body fossils and/or trace fossils, although evidence of their organic origin is still not conclusive.”
Archive 2008-08-01 ReBecca Foster 2008
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