THALLUS (thalli)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: thalli   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does thallus mean? 

• THALLUS (noun)
  The noun THALLUS has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: THALLUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THALLUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("thallus" is a kind of...):

plant part; plant structure (any part of a plant or fungus)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "thallus"):

crustose thallus (thin crusty lichen thallus; adheres closely to or is embedded in the surface on which it grows)

 Context examples 

A taxonomic family of mammalian pathogenic bacterium, which produce mycelial filaments or muriform thalli, in the phylum Actinobacteria that includes the genera Dermatophilus and Kineosphera, among others.

(Dermatophilaceae, NCI Thesaurus)

The mass of interwoven filamentous hyphae that forms especially the vegetative portion of the thallus of a fungus.

(Mycelium, Food and Drug Administration)