Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- One of the primary groups or divisions of the vegetable kingdom, containing the lowest and simplest plants, and corresponding to the Protozoa of the animal kingdom.
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Though solar and stellar systems amaze by their grandeur of scale, yet is true manhood the maximum of Nature; though microscopic and sub-microscopic protophyta amaze by their inconceivable littleness, yet is mock manhood
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator Various
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The fusion of the nuclei of the two cells was regarded by Van Beneden, who in 1875 first accurately described it, as a process of conjugation comparable to that of the protozoa and the protophyta.
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy Havelock Ellis 1899
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