zygophyte

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Etymology

zygote + -phyte

Noun

zygophyte (plural zygophytes)

1. (botany) Any plant of a proposed class or grand division in which reproduction consists in the union of two similar cells.

See also

• oophyte