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char•o•phyte
(kar′ə fīt′),USA pronunciation n.
- Microbiologyany green algae of the class Charophyceae (or group Charophyta), comprising the stoneworts.
- Neo-Latin Charophyta, equivalent. to Char(a) a genus of stoneworts (Latin: a plant of uncertain identity found in Epirus) + -o- -o- + Greek phŷta, plural of phŷton -phyte