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Conferva

noun
(pl. confervae)
1.
Any of various algae of the genus Tribonema; algae with branching filaments that form scum in still or stagnant fresh water.



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... underlying corium. As the spines are very numerous, so are the parallel rows of tubuli. After the shelly layers had been dissolved, there was left in L. dorsalis (well seen in the latera), an extraordinary, conferva-like mass of branching, jointed, excessively thin tubes, sometimes slightly enlarged at the articulations, and appearing to contain brown granular matter: other portions of the valves, instead of this appearance, exhibited membranes or films with similar, ...
— A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) - The Lepadidae; or, Pedunculated Cirripedes • Charles Darwin


Words linked to "Conferva" :   Tribonema, yellow-green algae, genus Tribonema


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