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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A plant some part of which ceases from growth, thus forming a body. All the higher plants are somatophytes, and qualifiedly even those unicellular ones (Vaucheria, Mucor) in which growth is at length only apical. Opposed to asomatophyte.

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