Look up: Algae

1. Algae
   aquatic plants that lack a vascular system. Some are microscopic and others are large. Examples are pond scum, kelp and red tides.
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2. Algae
   Simple rootless plants that grow in sunlit waters in proportion to the amount of available nutrients. They can affect water quality adversely by lowering the dissolved oxygen in the water. They are food for fish and small aquatic animals.
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3. algae
   Simple rootless plants that grow in sunlit waters in relative proportion to the amounts of nutrients available. They are food for fish and small aquatic animals.
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4. Algae
   Minute free-floating plants present in pond water that feed on dissolved minerals from decaying plants and soil washed into the pond. They are vital to the life-cycles of many creatures.
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5. Algae
   Swimming pool chemistry: Over 20,000 species known to man! Algae may form on your pool surfaces or it may bloom in suspension. We typically know algae to be green, but it may also be yellow (mustard algae), black, blue-green or any shade in between. It may form separate spots, or seem to grow in she...
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6. Algae
   Microorganisms that may grow to colonies in damp environments, including certain rooftops. They can discolor shingles. Often described as 'fungus.'
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7. algae
   A non-taxonomic term used to group several phyla of the lower plants, including the Rhodophyta > Rhodophyta (red algae), Chlorophyta > Chlorophyta (green algae), Phaeophyta > Phaeophyta (brown algae), and Chrysophyta > Chrysophyta (diatoms). Many algae are unicellular or consist of simple undifferentiated colonies, but red and brown algae are complex multicellular organisms, familiar to most people as seaweeds. Blue-green algae are a totally sepa …
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8. algae
   <botany> A nontaxonomic term used to group several phyla of the lower plants, including the Rhodophyta (red algae), Chlorophyta (green algae), Phaeophyta (brown algae) and Chrysophyta (diatoms). ... Many algae are unicellular or consist of simple undifferentiated colonies, but red and brown al...
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9. algae
   (al´je) a group of plants living in the water, including all seaweeds, and ranging in size from microscopic cells to fronds hundreds of feet long. blue-green algae former name for members of the group now called Cyanobacteria.
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10. Algae
    • (pl. ) of Alga
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11. algae
    members of a group of predominantly aquatic, photosynthetic organisms of the kingdom Protista. They range in size from the tiny flagellate Micromonas ... [32 related articles]
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12. algae
    Type: Term Pronunciation: al′jē Definitions: 1. A division of eukaryotic, photosynthetic, nonflowering organisms that includes many seaweeds.
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13. Algae
    A simple photosynthetic plant that usually lives in moist or aquatic environments. The bodies of algae can be unicellular or multicellular is design.
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14. Algae
    Primitive plants, usually aquatic, capable of synthesizing their own food by photosynthesis.
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15. algae
    algae (ăl'jē) [plural of Lat. alga=seaweed], a large and diverse group of primarily aquatic plantlike organisms. These organisms were previously classified as a primitive subkingdom of the plant kingdom, the thallophytes (plants that lack true roots, stems, leaves, and flowers). More...
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16. Algae
    Photosynthetic, almost exclusively aquatic, nonvascular plants that range in size from simple unicellular forms to giant kelps several feet long. They have extremely varied life cycles and first appeared in the Precambrian.
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17. algae
    Highly varied group of plants, ranging from single-celled forms to large and complex seaweeds. They live in both fresh and salt water, and in damp soil. Algae do not have true roots, stems, or leaves. Marine algae help combat global warming by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere during photosynthesis
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18. Algae
    Rootless plants that grow in sunlit waters in relative proportion to the amounts of nutrients available. They can affect water quality adversely by lowering the dissolved oxygen in the water. They are food for fish and small aquatic animals. However, when algae exists in excess, it takes away oxygen from the water, thus killing all life.
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19. algae
    simple aquatic organisms that carry out photosynthesis; seaweeds are marine algae
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20. Algae
    or ; singular alga , Latin for "seaweed") are a large and diverse group of simple, typically autotrophic organisms, ranging from unicellular to multicellular forms, such as the giant kelps that grow to 65 meters in length. They are photosynthetic like plants, and "simple" ...
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