phytomorph

English edit

phytomorph (plural phytomorphs)

(rare) The representation of a plant in art.
- 2018, Jules Janick, Arthur O. Tucker, Unraveling the Voynich Codex, Springer, →ISBN, page 144:
  The approach was to match proper names of identified phytomorphs with the names of plants in dialects of Nahuatl (Tucker and Talbert 2013).
(rare, botany) A specific morphology of a phytolith.
- 1995, Salvatore A. Engel-Di Mauro, A Phytolith Analysis of Buried Soils in the Young Loess Sequence of Hungary:
  Interpretational Criteria During the initial stages of counting, it became apparent that some of the phytomorphs observed do not conform to established classification schemes.
(obsolete, paleontology) A hypothetical alga-like organism once thought to have had a symbiosis with some extinct fenestrid bryozoans, in an attempt to explain their unusual morphologies.
- 1946, National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on a Treatise on Marine Ecology and Paleoecology, Report:
  Various features of the phytomorphs were illustrated, described, and discussed in some detail in the paper, and their similarity to various living algae were pointed out.