Definitions for thallus

thallus thal·lus

Spelling: [thal-uh s]
IPA: /ˈθæl əs/

Thallus is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 127 anagrams from letters in thallus (ahllstu).

Definitions for thallus

noun

  1. a simple vegetative body undifferentiated into true leaves, stem, and root, ranging from an aggregation of filaments to a complex plantlike form.

Origin of thallus

1820-30; New Latin Greek thallós young shoot, twig

Examples for thallus

The colouring matter is ready formed and abundant in the thallus.

The structure of the thallus may serve to represent that of most of the Lichens.

As a matter of fact, thallus, whom you mentioned, needs a doctor rather than a magician.

thallus only is absent owing to the fact that he has been banished to a place some hundred miles distant.

Antheridia immersed in the thallus, covered with dentate scales.

Piece of thallus of Parmelia conspersa, with section through an apothecium.

So Peter went back with the boy to the house of thallus, and next day began to visit the prisons once more.

The literal meaning is 'thallus contracts his hands, you collect advocates'.

This, in contradistinction to the leafy shoot, is termed a thallus.

The thallus does not yet show this important morphological division.

Word Value for thallus
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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