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Seaweed

Popularly, any plant or plants growing in the sea.

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Alga 76% connected

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…

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Algae 76% connected

of Alga

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Sea tang 76% connected

A kind of seaweed; tang; tangle.

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Sea wrack 76% connected

See Wrack.

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Tang 76% connected

A coarse blackish seaweed (Fuscus nodosus).

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Wrack 76% connected

A thin, flying cloud; a rack.

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Acidophil noun · 86% connection

an organism that thrives in a relatively acid environment

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Acidophile noun · 86% connection

an organism that thrives in a relatively acid environment

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Bacteria n.p. · 86% connection

See Bacterium.

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Bacterium noun · 86% connection

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

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Calymmatobacterium noun · 86% connection

a genus of bacterial rods containing only the one species that causes granuloma inguinale

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Cosmid noun · 86% connection

(genetics) a large vector that is made from a bacteriophage and used to clone genes or gene fragments

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Eubacteria noun · 86% connection

a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella

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Eubacterium noun · 86% connection

a large group of bacteria having rigid cell walls; motile types have flagella

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Francisella noun · 86% connection

a genus of Gram-negative aerobic bacteria that occur as pathogens and parasite in many animals (including humans)

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Genus Calymmatobacterium noun · 86% connection

a genus of bacterial rods containing only the one species that causes granuloma inguinale

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Genus Francisella noun · 86% connection

a genus of Gram-negative aerobic bacteria that occur as pathogens and parasite in many animals (including humans)

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Intestinal flora noun · 86% connection

harmless microorganisms (as Escherichia coli) that inhabit the intestinal tract and are essential for its normal functioning

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Legionella noun · 86% connection

the motile aerobic rod-shaped Gram-negative bacterium that thrives in central heating and air conditioning systems and can cause Legio…

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Legionella pneumophila noun · 86% connection

the motile aerobic rod-shaped Gram-negative bacterium that thrives in central heating and air conditioning systems and can cause Legio…

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Legionella pneumophilia noun · 86% connection

the motile aerobic rod-shaped Gram-negative bacterium that thrives in central heating and air conditioning systems and can cause Legio…

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Micro-organism noun · 86% connection

any organism of microscopic size

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Microorganism noun · 86% connection

Any microscopic form of life; -- particularly applied to bacteria and similar organisms, esp. such are supposed to cause infectious di…

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Monad noun · 86% connection

An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible.

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Academy noun · 78% connection

A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; h…

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Aerial adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to the air, or atmosphere; inhabiting or frequenting the air; produced by or found in the air; performed in the air;…

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Aerophyte noun · 78% connection

A plant growing entirely in the air, and receiving its nourishment from it; an air plant or epiphyte.

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Allheal noun · 78% connection

A name popularly given to the officinal valerian, and to some other plants.

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Ant egg unknown · 78% connection

One of the small white egg-shaped pupae or cocoons of the ant, often seen in or about ant-hills, and popularly supposed to be eggs.

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Antenna noun · 78% connection

A movable, articulated organ of sensation, attached to the heads of insects and Crustacea. There are two in the former, and usually fo…

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Bankrupt noun · 78% connection

A trader who secretes himself, or does certain other acts tending to defraud his creditors.

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Bitterroot noun · 78% connection

A plant (Lewisia rediviva) allied to the purslane, but with fleshy, farinaceous roots, growing in the mountains of Idaho, Montana, etc…

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Blindworm noun · 78% connection

A small, burrowing, snakelike, limbless lizard (Anguis fragilis), with minute eyes, popularly believed to be blind; the slowworm; -- f…

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Broom rape unknown · 78% connection

A genus (Orobanche) of parasitic plants of Europe and Asia. They are destitute of chlorophyll, have scales instead of leaves, and spik…

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Caterpillar noun · 78% connection

The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous insect; sometimes, but less commonly, the larval state of other insects, as the s…

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Chicory noun · 78% connection

A branching perennial plant (Cichorium Intybus) with bright blue flowers, growing wild in Europe, Asia, and America; also cultivated f…

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