One of the Diatomaceae, a family of minute unicellular Algae having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, each individual multiplyin…
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Planktonic algae
unicellular algae, one of four families of Charophyte green algae
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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, Botany.the aggregate of small plant and animal organisms that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water
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.Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly.
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Botany.A marked prominence or process on any part of a bone.
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Botany.The inner fibrous bark of various plants; esp. of the lime tree; hence, matting, cordage, etc., made therefrom.
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Botany.Happening, or taking place, once in two years; as, a biennial election.
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Botany.A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collecti…
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Botany.Same as Callosity
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Botany.The covering of a flower. See Flower.
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Botany.A state of profound insensibility from which it is difficult or impossible to rouse a person. See Carus.
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Botany.The inner envelope of a flower; the part which surrounds the organs of fructification, consisting of one or more leaves, called petals…
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Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Botany.The first rudiments of an organism, whether animal or plant
Used in the same subject area: Biology, Nature and environment, Botany.(botany) a slender tubular outgrowth from a spore in germination
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The state of being allied; the act of allying or uniting; a union or connection of interests between families, states, parties, etc.,…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unicellular, algae, four, families, charophyte.A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unicellular, algae, four, families, charophyte.A member of the Burman family, one of the four great families Burmah; also, sometimes, any inhabitant of Burmah; a Burmese.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unicellular, algae, four, families, charophyte.Literally, leaf green; a green granular matter formed in the cells of the leaves (and other parts exposed to light) of plants, to whic…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unicellular, algae, four, families, charophyte.mostly freshwater eukaryotic algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown or yellow pigment; yellow-green and golden-brown algae and d…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unicellular, algae, four, families, charophyte.Any unbranched, slender, green plant of the fresh-water algae. The word is frequently used in a wider sense.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unicellular, algae, four, families, charophyte.A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unicellular, algae, four, families, charophyte.prokaryotic organisms sometimes considered a class or phylum or subkingdom; coextensive with the Cyanophyceae: cyanobacteria (blue-gre…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unicellular, algae, four, families, charophyte.Alt. of Desmidian
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unicellular, algae, four, families, charophyte.A microscopic plant of the family Desmidiae, a group of unicellular algae in which the species have a greenish color, and the cells ge…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unicellular, algae, four, families, charophyte.mostly freshwater eukaryotic algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown or yellow pigment; yellow-green and golden-brown algae and d…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unicellular, algae, four, families, charophyte.prokaryotic organisms sometimes considered a class or phylum or subkingdom; coextensive with the Cyanophyceae: cyanobacteria (blue-gre…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: unicellular, algae, four, families, charophyte.
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