phytomorph

The representation of a plant in art.

Noun

  1. The representation of a plant in art.
    • The approach was to match proper names of identified phytomorphs with the names of plants in dialects of Nahuatl (Tucker and Talbert 2013). - 2018, Jules Janick, Arthur O. Tucker, Unraveling the Voynich Codex, Springer,...
  2. A specific morphology of a phytolith.
    • Interpretational Criteria During the initial stages of counting, it became apparent that some of the phytomorphs observed do not conform to established classification schemes. - 1995, Salvatore A. Engel-Di Mauro, A...
  3. 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.
    • 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. - 1946, National Research Council (U.S.)....

Origin

From phyto- + -morph.

Forms

phytomorphs