Thalloid vs. Thallus

Thalloidadjective

Of or pertaining to a thallus.

Thalloidadjective

(botany) Of a plant, alga, or fungus lacking complex organization, especially lacking distinct stems, roots, or leaves.

Thalloidadjective

Resembling, or consisting of, thallus.

Thalloidadjective

of or relating to or resembling or consisting of a thallus

Thallusnoun

(botany) An undifferentiated plant body, such as in algae.

Thallusnoun

(botany) Any plant body lacking vascular tissue.

Thallusnoun

A solid mass of cellular tissue, consisting of one or more layers, usually in the form of a flat stratum or expansion, but sometimes erect or pendulous, and elongated and branching, and forming the substance of the thallogens.

Thallusnoun

a plant body without true stems or roots or leaves or vascular system; characteristic of the thallophytes

Thallus

Thallus (plural: thalli), from Latinized Greek θαλλός (thallos), meaning or , is the vegetative tissue of some organisms in diverse groups such as algae, fungi, some liverworts, lichens, and the Myxogastria. Many of these organisms were previously known as the thallophytes, a polyphyletic group of distantly related organisms.