ALGA

alga, algae

(noun) primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

alga (plural algae)

(biology) Any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms, including the seaweeds, whose size ranges from a single cell to giant kelps and whose biochemistry and forms are very diverse, some being eukaryotic.

Usage notes

• Algaes is a non-standard plural.

Hyponyms

• (photosynthetic aquatic organism): seaweed; green alga (Chlorophyta and Charophyta) and red alga (Rhodophyta and Glaucophyta) in Plantae; brown alga (Phaeophyceae) and yellow-green algae (Xanthophyceae), Haptophyta, and Cryptomonada in Chromista, and blue-green alga (Cyanobacteria)

• microalga

Anagrams

• Gaal, Gala, agal, gala

Source: Wiktionary

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Al"ga, n.; pl. Algæ. Etym: [L., seaweed.] (Bot.)

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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