Schizophyte

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Schizophyte \Schiz"o*phyte\, n. [Schizo- + Gr. ? a plant.]
     (Biol.)
     One of a class of vegetable organisms, in the classification
     of Cohn, which includes all of the inferior forms that
     multiply by fission, whether they contain chlorophyll or not.
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