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Xanthidium :: Xanthidium (n.) A genus of minute unicellular algae of the desmids. These algae have a rounded shape and are armed with glochidiate or branched aculei. Several species occur in ditches, and others are found fossil in flint or hornstone..

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

Valonia :: Valonia (n.) A genus of marine green algae, in which the whole frond consists of a single oval or cylindrical cell, often an inch in length..

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..

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

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

Stichomancy :: Stichidium (n.) A special podlike or fusiform branch containing tetraspores. It is found in certain red algae.

Conceptacle :: Conceptacle (n.) One of the cases containing the spores, etc., of flowerless plants, especially of algae..

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..

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

Algae :: Algae (pl. ) of Alg.

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

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

Seirospore :: Seirospore (n.) One of several spores arranged in a chain as in certain algae of the genus Callithamnion.

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..

Phycocyanine :: Phycocyanine (n.) A blue coloring matter found in certain algae.

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

Phycology :: Phycology (n.) The science of algae, or seaweeds; algology..

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

Hormogonium :: Hormogonium (n.) A chain of small cells in certain algae, by which the plant is propogated..

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