Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, belonging to the class Schisophytæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) One of a class of vegetable organisms, in the classification of Cohn, which includes all of the inferior forms that multiply by fission, whether they contain chlorophyll or not.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun dated Any of the class of primitive plants that reproduce solely by
fission .
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek σχίζω ("split") + -phyte
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