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Definition: PROTHALLUS |
PROTHALLUSNoun1. The minute primary growth from the spore of ferns and other Pteridophyta, which bears the true sexual organs; the oophoric generation of ferns, etc. |
Etymology: Prothallus \Pro*thal"lus\, noun; plural Prothalli. [New Latin expression, from the Greek expression before young shoot.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Biology & Biotechnology | A small, often flattened, thalluslike structure bearing the male and female organs, which represents the sexual stage(the gametophyte)of Pteridophyta(i. e. ferns)and related groups. Source: European Union. (references) |
Science | A weft of fungal hyphae (white, reddish or blue-black) at the margin of the thallus, lacking photobiont, often projecting beyond the thallus onto the substratum. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: PROTHALLUS |
| English words defined with "PROTHALLUS": Oophore ♦ Prothalli, Prothallium. (references) |
| Language | Translations for "PROTHALLUS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | prothallium. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | prothallus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | protallio, alkeisvarsikko. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | prothalle. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Prothallus. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | protallo. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | othalluspray protalo. (various references) protalo. (various references) protallium, ormbunksväxt-gametofyt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "PROTHALLUS": prothalluses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "PROTHALLUS" (pronounced prō'tha"lus) |
| 4 | -a" l u s | balas, callous, callus, digitalis, Gallus, malice, palace. |
| 3 | -l u s | accomplice, acropolis, ageless, aimless, airless, Amaryllis, anomalous, atlas, bacillus, backless, baseless, blameless, bloodless, bolus, boneless, bottomless, boundless, brainless, breathless, calculus, careless, Carolus, cashless, ceaseless, childless, classless, cloudless, clueless, Colas, colorless, cordless, countless, cutlass, defenseless, directionless, doubtless, driverless, ductless, earless, effortless, endless, expressionless, eyeless, fabulous, faceless, fatherless, fearless, featherless, featureless, feckless, fellas, fenceless, flawless, flightless, frictionless, frivolous, fruitless, garrulous, gladiolus, godless, graceless, groundless, guileless, guiltless, hairless, hapless, harmless, headless, heartless, helpless, homeless, hopeless, hornless, humorless, incredulous, irregardless, issueless, jealous, jobless, keyless, lactobacillus, landless, lawless, leaderless, leafless, legless, libelous, lifeless, limbless, limitless, listless, loveless, luckless, marvelous, meaningless, meatless, megalopolis, merciless, meticulous, metropolis, mindless, miraculous, motherless, motionless, nameless, nautilus, nebulous, necklace, necropolis, needless, odorless, overzealous, Oxalis, painless, paperless, peerless, pendulous, penniless, perilous, pilotless, pitiless, pointless, polis, populace, populous, powerless, priceless, purposeless, querulous, reckless, regardless, relentless, remorseless, restless, ridiculous, riskless, rootless, rudderless, ruthless, scandalous, scoreless, scrupulous, scurrilous, seamless, selfless, senseless, sexless, shameless, shapeless, shiftless, skinless, sleepless, sleeveless, smokeless, solace, soulless, speechless, spineless, spotless, stainless, stateless, stimulus, stylus, surplus, syphilis, tantalus, tasteless, thankless, thoughtless, ticketless, tieless, timeless, tireless, toothless, topless, treeless, trellis, tremulous, unscrupulous, useless, valueless, victimless, voiceless, warrantless, weightless, windlass, windowless, wireless, witless, wordless, worthless, zealous, zipless. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-l-l-o-p-r-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: postural, pulsator, thallous. | |
-3 letters: authors, harlots, hotspur, hulloas, lustral, pallors, parlous, patrols, phallus, plurals, portals, shallop, shallot, thallus, thralls, torulas. | |
-4 letters: allots, atolls, author, hallos, hallot, harlot, hollas, hulloa, hullos, lotahs, lustra, pallor, parols, parous, pastor, pathos, patrol, pharos, plural, polars, portal, postal, potash, poults, prahus, prutah, pulsar, ralphs, rouths, sapour, sporal, sprout. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-l-l-o-p-r-s-t-u" | |
+2 letters: prothalluses. | |
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