The story
- translingual · borrowed fromHaptophyta
- English todayhaptophyte
Borrowed from translingual Haptophyta. By surface analysis, hapto- (“binding”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
haptophyte
Today it means: A kind of unicellular marine phytoplankton, typically covered in tiny scales or plates composed of carbohydrates and calcium deposits Full definition →
translingual Haptophyta