Definition of alga

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Alga (n.) 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 marine and fresh water confervae, etc..

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Amalgam :: Amalgam (n.) A native compound of mercury and silver.
Phaeospore :: Phaeospore (n.) A brownish zoospore, characteristic of an order (Phaeosporeae) of dark green or olive-colored algae..
Moorball :: Moorball (n.) A fresh-water alga (Cladophora Aegagropila) which forms a globular mass.
Sandarac :: Sandarac (n.) Realgar; red sulphide of arsenic.
Algaroba :: Algaroba (n.) The Honey mesquite (Prosopis juliflora), a small tree found from California to Buenos Ayres; also, its sweet, pulpy pods. A valuable gum, resembling gum arabic, is collected from the tree in Texas and Mexico..
Phycology :: Phycology (n.) The science of algae, or seaweeds; algology..
Stichomancy :: Stichidium (n.) A special podlike or fusiform branch containing tetraspores. It is found in certain red algae.
Androspore :: Androspore (n.) A spore of some algae, which has male functions..
Water Gilding :: Water gilding () The act, or the process, of gilding metallic surfaces by covering them with a thin coating of amalgam of gold, and then volatilizing the mercury by heat; -- called also wash gilding..
Amalgamate :: Amalgamate (a.) Alt. of Amalgamate.
Amalgam :: Amalgam (v. t. / i.) To amalgamate.
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
Amalgamative :: Amalgamative (a.) Characterized by amalgamation.
Phycocyanine :: Phycocyanine (n.) A blue coloring matter found in certain algae.
Algal :: Algal (a.) Pertaining to, or like, algae..
Patio :: Patio (n.) A paved yard or floor where ores are cleaned and sorted, or where ore, salt, mercury, etc., are trampled by horses, to effect intermixture and amalgamation..
Microzoospore :: Microzoospore (n.) A small motile spore furnished with two vibratile cilia, found in certain green algae..
Hormogonium :: Hormogonium (n.) A chain of small cells in certain algae, by which the plant is propogated..
Algologist :: Algologist (n.) One learned about algae; a student of algology.
Algates :: Algates (adv.) Always; wholly; everywhere.
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