microscopic unicellular marine or freshwater colonial alga having cell walls impregnated with silica
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Plankton
the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water
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microscopic organisms found in plankton
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Marine biology.photosynthetic or plant constituent of plankton; mainly unicellular algae
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Marine biology.unicellular algae, one of four families of Charophyte green algae
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Marine biology.plankton that inhabit rivers
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Marine biology.animal constituent of plankton; mainly small crustaceans and fish larvae
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals, Marine biology.(biology) a single-celled microorganism (especially a flagellate protozoan)
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.a reef consisting of coral consolidated into limestone
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Marine biology.the wide part of a river where it nears the sea; fresh and salt water mix
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Marine biology.(genetics) an organism or cell having a diploid set of chromosomes from each parent
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission;…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission;…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) an organism that possesses a recessive gene whose effect is masked by a dominant allele; the associated trait is not appare…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding pla…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) an organism that is the offspring of genetically dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring produced by breeding pla…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) an organism or cell having the normal amount of DNA per cell; i.e., two sets of chromosomes or twice the haploid number
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) an organism or cell having only one complete set of chromosomes
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Animals.(genetics) an organism or cell having a chromosome number that is not an even multiple of the haploid chromosome number for that speci…
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To join or unite, as one thing to another, or as several particulars, so as to increase the number, augment the quantity, enlarge the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: aggregate, small, plant, animal, organisms.(biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts; "i…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: aggregate, small, plant, animal, organisms.a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); bur…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: aggregate, small, plant, animal, organisms.A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but gene…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: aggregate, small, plant, animal, organisms.One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddl…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: aggregate, small, plant, animal, organisms.The aggregate of all one's inherited physical qualities; the aggregate of the vital powers of an individual, with reference to ability…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: aggregate, small, plant, animal, organisms.That causes drifting or that is drifted; movable by wind or currents; as, drift currents; drift ice; drift mud.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: aggregate, small, plant, animal, organisms.A smooth drift. See Drift, n., 9.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: aggregate, small, plant, animal, organisms.salt produced from the mineral water of Bad Ems, used as a medicine for diseases of the upper respiratory tract.; "Gargling with Emser…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: aggregate, small, plant, animal, organisms.The quality or power of producing fruit; fruitfulness; especially (Biol.), the quality in female organisms of reproducing rapidly and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: aggregate, small, plant, animal, organisms.A method of asexual reproduction among the lowest (unicellular) organisms by means of a process of self-division, consisting of gradua…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: aggregate, small, plant, animal, organisms.A float board. See Float board (below).
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