Alga

What do we mean by alga?

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. noun

A cryptogam of the class of Algæ. 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. 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. noun

Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves noun

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.

Words that are spelled similarly to alga:
alga.

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Adjectives that are often used to describe alga:
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Nouns that are often described by the adjective alga:
marina, flora, association, fungi, feeding, relationship, interactions, cells, cell.

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