Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Zyophyte \Zy"o*phyte\, n. [Gr. ? a yoke + fyto`n a plant.]
   (Bot.)
   Any plant of a proposed class or grand division
   ({Zygophytes}, {Zygophyta}, or {Zygospore[ae]}), in which
   reproduction consists in the union of two similar cells. Cf.
   {O["o]phyte}.