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Nemathecium :: Nemathecium (n.) A peculiar kind of fructification on certain red algae, consisting of an external mass of filaments at length separating into tetraspores..

Laver :: Laver (n.) The fronds of certain marine algae used as food, and for making a sauce called laver sauce. Green laver is the Ulva latissima; purple laver, Porphyra laciniata and P. vulgaris. It is prepared by stewing, either alone or with other vegetables, and with various condiments; -- called also sloke, or sloakan..

Phycoerythrine :: Phycoerythrine (n.) A red coloring matter found in algae of the subclass Florideae.

Sphaerospore :: Sphaerospore (n.) One of the nonsexual spores found in red algae; a tetraspore.

Oscillaria :: Oscillaria (n.) A genus of dark green, or purplish black, filamentous, fresh-water algae, the threads of which have an automatic swaying or crawling motion. Called also Oscillatoria..

Protococcus :: Protococcus (n.) A genus of minute unicellular algae including the red snow plant (Protococcus nivalis).

Conferva :: Conferva (n.) Any unbranched, slender, green plant of the fresh-water algae. The word is frequently used in a wider sense..

Microphyte :: Microphyte (n.) A very minute plant, one of certain unicellular algae, such as the germs of various infectious diseases are believed to be..

Trichophore :: Trichophore (n.) The special cell in red algae which produces or bears a trichogyne. See Illust. of Trichogyne.

Gemmule :: Gemmule (n.) One of the reproductive spores of algae.

Sargassum :: Sargassum (n.) A genus of algae including the gulf weed.

Cyst :: Cyst (n.) One of the bladders or air vessels of certain algae, as of the great kelp of the Pacific, and common rockweeds (Fuci) of our shores..

Bacterium :: Bacterium (n.) A microscopic vegetable organism, belonging to the class Algae, usually in the form of a jointed rodlike filament, and found in putrefying organic infusions. Bacteria are destitute of chlorophyll, and are the smallest of microscopic organisms. They are very widely diffused in nature, and multiply with marvelous rapidity, both by fission and by spores. Certain species are active agents in fermentation, while others appear to be the cause of certain infectious diseases. See Bacillus

Swarmspore :: Swarmspore (n.) One of innumerable minute, motile, reproductive bodies, produced asexually by certain algae and fungi; a zoospore..

Mucus :: Mucus (n.) A gelatinous or slimy substance found in certain algae and other plants.

Algologist :: Algologist (n.) One learned about algae; a student of algology.

Algous :: Algous (a.) Of or pertaining to the algae, or seaweeds; abounding with, or like, seaweed..

Phaeospore :: Phaeospore (n.) A brownish zoospore, characteristic of an order (Phaeosporeae) of dark green or olive-colored algae..

Phycophaeine :: Phycophaeine (n.) A brown coloring matter found in certain algae.

Carpospore :: Carpospore (n.) A kind of spore formed in the conceptacles of red algae.

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