thallus

Definitions

1. An undifferentiated plant body, such as in algae.
2. Any plant body lacking vascular tissue.

Equivalents

Examples

“As it flows it takes the forms of sappy leaves or vines, making heaps of pulpy sprays a foot or more in depth, and resembling, as you look⟳ down on them, the laciniated, lobed, and imbricated thalluses of some lichens; […]”

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