Zy"go*phyte (?), n. [Gr. a yoke + a plant.] Bot.

Any plant of a proposed class or grand division (Zygophytes, Zygophyta, or Zygosporeae), in which reproduction consists in the union of two similar cells. Cf. Oophyte.

 

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