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thalluses

thalluses is the plural of thallus.

Meaning of thallus

Noun

thallus (plural thalluses or thalli)

  1. An undifferentiated plant body, such as in algae.
    • 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; […]1854 August 9, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, “Spring”, in Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC
  2. Any plant body lacking vascular tissue.

Questions about thalluses

What is thalluses the plural of?
Thalluses is the plural of thallus.

Words near thalluses in the dictionary

  1. thallospore
  2. thallospores
  3. thallotoxicosis
  4. thallous
  5. thallus
  6. thalluses
  7. thallyle
  8. thallyles
  9. Thalman
  10. Thalmans
  11. thalomocortical

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