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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



... several miles, was covered with as fine wheat as ever I saw in the most fertile parts of South Britain — This plentiful crop is raised in the open field, without any inclosure, or other manure than the alga marina, or seaweed, which abounds on this coast; a circumstance which shews that the soil and climate are favourable; but that agriculture in this country is not yet brought to that perfection which it has attained in England. Inclosures would not only keep the grounds warm, and the several ...
— The Expedition of Humphry Clinker • Tobias Smollett

... her added colouring. The way too in which the colours are distributed is an example of Nature's most perfect artistry; on the lower, heavier buttressed parts, where the darkest hues should be, we find the browns and rust-reds of the minute aerial alga, mixed with the greys of lichen, these darker stainings extending upwards to a height of fifty or sixty feet, in places higher, then giving place to more delicate hues, the pale tender greens and greenish greys, in places tinged with yellow, the colours always appearing brightest on the smooth ...
— Afoot in England • W.H. Hudson

... the slide, I placed some alga spores (some of which were ruptured, thus allowing the starch grains to escape) and some minute crystals of uric acid upon it. Whenever the actinophrys touched a starch grain with a pseudopod, the latter was at once retracted, carrying the starch grain ...
— The Dawn of Reason - or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals • James Weir



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



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