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ALGAE |
Seaweeds |
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PHYCOGRAPHY |
A description of seaweeds. |
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FUCIVOROUS |
Eating fucus or other seaweeds. |
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NEREOCYSTIS |
A genus of gigantic seaweeds. |
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PHYCOLOGY |
The science of algae, or seaweeds; algology. |
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ALGOLOGY |
The study or science of algae or seaweeds. |
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FUCOIDAL |
Containing impressions of fossil fucoids or seaweeds; as,
fucoidal sandstone. |
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GELOSE |
An amorphous, gummy carbohydrate, found in Gelidium,
agar-agar, and other seaweeds. |
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FUCOID |
In a vague sense, resembling seaweeds, or of the nature of
seaweeds. |
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ALGOUS |
Of or pertaining to the algae, or seaweeds; abounding with,
or like, seaweed. |
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MOTILE |
Having powers of self-motion, though unconscious; as, the
motile spores of certain seaweeds. |
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ULVA |
A genus of thin papery bright green seaweeds including the
kinds called sea lettuce. |
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FUCUS |
A genus of tough, leathery seaweeds, usually of a dull
brownish green color; rockweed. |
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SEA SCURF |
Any bryozoan which forms rounded or irregular patches of
coral on stones, seaweeds, etc. |
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TETRASPORE |
A nonsexual spore, one of a group of four regularly
occurring in red seaweeds. |
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TRICHOGYNE |
The slender, hairlike cell which receives the
fertilizing particles, or antherozoids, in red seaweeds. |
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SEA LETTUCE |
The green papery fronds of several seaweeds of the genus
Ulva, sometimes used as food. |
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FUCUSOL |
An oily liquid, resembling, and possibly identical with,
furfurol, and obtained from fucus, and other seaweeds. |
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SEA SNAIL |
A small fish of the genus Liparis, having a ventral
sucker. It lives among stones and seaweeds. |
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CARPOPHYTE |
A flowerless plant which forms a true fruit as the
result of fertilization, as the red seaweeds, the Ascomycetes, etc. |
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LIMU |
The Hawaiian name for seaweeds. Over sixty kinds are used as
food, and have species names, as Limu Lipoa, Limu palawai, etc. |
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LAMINARIAN |
Pertaining to seaweeds of the genus Laminaria, or to
that zone of the sea (from two to ten fathoms in depth) where the
seaweeds of this genus grow. |
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FLORIDEAE |
A subclass of algae including all the red or
purplish seaweeds; the Rhodospermeae of many authors; -- so called from
the rosy or florid color of most of the species. |
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ALGA |
A kind of seaweed; pl. the class of cellular cryptogamic
plants which includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp,
dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water confervae, etc. |
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LITTORINA |
...hick
spiral shells, abundant between tides on nearly all rocky seacoasts.
They feed on seaweeds. The common periwinkle is a well-known example.
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