Thallus

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun 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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thallus
thallus, i, m., = θαλλός, a green stalk , green bough : cepae, Col. 11, 3, 58; Pall. Febr. 24, ...

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