Meaning | algae that are clear green in color; often growing on wet ricks or damp wood or the surface of stagnant water. |
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Synonym | green algae |
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Member of | Chlorophyta, division Chlorophyta | large division of chiefly freshwater eukaryotic algae that possess chlorophyll ... / chlorophyll a and b, store food as starch, and cellulose cell walls |
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Narrower | desmid | Freshwater green algae |
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pond scum | Free-floating freshwater green algae |
sea lettuce, laver | seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds |
spirogyra | Freshwater algae consisting of minute filaments containing spiral chlorophyll bands |
stonewort | Any of various submerged aquatic algae of the genus Chara having nodes with whorled filamentlike branches |
Broader | alga, algae | Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves |
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Spanish | algas verdes, chlorophyte, clorofitas |
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Catalan | alga verda, cloròfit |
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