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thalassophyte

thalassophyte is the alternative form of thalassiophyte.

Meaning of thalassiophyte

Noun

thalassiophyte (plural thalassiophytes)

  1. (obsolete) any plant belonging to one of the obsolete taxonomic groups known as Thalassiophyta, which were believed to comprise various parts of the marine algae or seaweeds, depending on the classification system.

Forms of thalassophyte

pluralthalassophytes
alternative formthalassiophyte

Origin of thalassophyte

From thalasso- (“sea”) + -phyte (“plant”).

Questions about thalassophyte

What is thalassophyte the alternative form of?
Thalassophyte is the alternative form of thalassiophyte.

Words near thalassophyte in the dictionary

  1. thalassophiles
  2. thalassophilous
  3. thalassophobia
  4. thalassophonean
  5. thalassophoneans
  6. thalassophyte
  7. thalassophytes
  8. thalassotherapeutic
  9. thalassotherapies
  10. thalassotherapist
  11. thalassotherapists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thalassophyte (page history and authors); thalassiophyte (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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