Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a plant body without true stems or roots or leaves or vascular system;
characteristic of the thallophytes;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Thallus \Thal"lus\, n.; pl. Thalli. [NL., fr. Gr. ? young
shoot or branch, frond.] (Bot.)
A solid mass of cellular tissue, consisting of one or more
layers, usually in the form of a flat stratum or expansion,
but sometimes erect or pendulous, and elongated and
branching, and forming the substance of the thallogens.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
thallus
n 1: a plant body without true stems or roots or leaves or
vascular system; characteristic of the thallophytes