Rhabdolith: alternatives and connections

of Alga

Of the nature of, or resembling, an alga.

The achromatic figure, formed in mitotic cell-division, consisting of two asters connected by a spindle-shaped bundle of rodlike fiber…

A genus of small glassy heteropod mollusks found swimming at the surface in mid ocean. See Heteropod.

Of or pertaining to Mt. Atlas in Libya, and hence applied to the ocean which lies between Europe and Africa on the east and America on…

A microscopic vegetable organism, belonging to the class Algae, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putref…

a rodlike bacterium (especially any of the rod-shaped or branched bacteria in the root nodules of nitrogen-fixing plants)

A name given by Prof. Huxley to a gelatinous substance found in mud dredged from the Atlantic and preserved in alcohol. He supposed th…

Of or pertaining to the bottom; fundamental; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices.

Having at the bottom, or as a bottom; resting upon a bottom; grounded; -- mostly, in composition; as, sharp-bottomed; well-bottomed.

The ocean; the water of an ocean, sea, or salt lake.

The process of change into a stony or calcareous substance by the deposition of lime salt; -- normally, as in the formation of bone an…

Consisting of, or containing, calcareous matter or lime salts; calcareous.

One of a kind of minute, calcareous bodies, probably vegetable, often abundant in deep-sea mud.

A peculiar structure found in the Archaean limestones of Canada and other regions. By some geologists it is believed to be a species o…

A minute spherical or rounded structure; as blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles, minute fungi, spores, etc.

One of the very minute, disk-shaped bodies found in blood with the ordinary red corpuscles and white corpuscles; a third kind of blood…

A certain conic section supposed to be drawn in the tangent plane to any surface, and used to determine the accidents of curvature of…