Conferva

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  • n. An unbranched slender green freshwater alga.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Any unbranched, slender, green plant of the fresh-water algae. The word is frequently used in a wider sense.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A genus in which the older botanists placed many very heterogeneous species of filamentous cryptogams.
  • n. [lowercase; pl. confervæ (-vē).] The common name of plants of this genus.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. 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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    confervae