Alga

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  • noun. Any of numerous photosynthetic organisms of aquatic or moist habitats, ranging in size from single-celled diatoms to large seaweeds such as kelp, and characterized by a lack of complex organs and tissues. Once classified within the plant kingdom, the algae are now considered to include several unrelated groups belonging to different kingdoms.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A cryptogam of the class of Algæ.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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 confervæ, etc. The algae are primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms, whose size ranges from a single cell to giant kelps and whose form is very diverse; some are eukaryotic and some prokaryotic; includes the seaweeds.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves
    • Word Usage
    "The alga, which is native to the Pacific Ocean, first showed up three years ago in"
    cross-reference
    boring alga  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    protoctist  
    Hyponym
    Words that are more specific
    brown algae  chlorella  chlorophyte  confervoid algae  cryptomonad  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    algae  color-blindness  crche  diatoms  dragonette  
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