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Word: Psilophyte
Speech Type: Noun
early 20th century. From psilo- + -phyte
A plant that is adapted for a dry savannah environment; the growth form characteristic of such a plant.
Any of various extinct primitive vascular plants of the Upper Silurian and Devonian periods, lacking true roots and leaves but having a creeping rhizome and a cylindrical branching stem with a central vascular strand, sometimes bearing scales or leaf-like branchlets. Also: a member of the extant order Psilotales, comprising two genera (Psilotum and Tmesipteris) of small tropical and subtropical plants that superficially resemble these fossils.
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