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Alga

noun
(pl. algae or algae)
1.
Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.  Synonym: algae.



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"Alga" Quotes from Famous Books



... none have interested me more than Carter's on lower vegetables, infusoria, and protozoa. Is he as good a workman as he appears? for if so he would deserve a Royal medal. I know it is not new; but how wonderful his account of the spermatozoa of some dioecious alga or conferva, swimming and finding the minute micropyle in a distinct plant, and forcing its way in! Why, these zoospores must possess some sort of organ of sense to guide their locomotive powers to the small micropyle; and does not this necessarily imply something ...
— More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II - Volume II (of II) • Charles Darwin


Words linked to "Alga" :   green algae, euglenid, euglenoid, diatom, seaweed, cryptophyte, chlorella, chlorophyte, euglenophyte, protoctist, cryptomonad


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