thallus
nounUK, US /ˈθæl.əs/
Etymology From Ancient Greek θαλλός (thallós, “young shoot, twig”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰelh₁- (“to bloom”).
- 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:
- Derived terms
- Abrothallus, Chrysothallus, Cryptothallus, Didymothallus, Geothallus, Greeneothallus, Himantothallus, hypothallus, Makednothallus, perithallus, Phaeothallus, pseudothallus, Rhizothallus, Sandeothallus, thallodic, Xenothallus
- Related terms
- Phyllothallia, thalliform, thalline, thallium, Thallobionta, thallodal, thalloid, Thallophyta, thallophyte, thallose