alga
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
alga /ˈalgə/
▶noun (pl. algae /ˈaldʒiː, ˈalgiː/) any of a large group of simple, non-flowering plants containing chlorophyll but lacking true stems, roots, leaves, and vascular tissue, e.g. the seaweeds and many single-celled forms.
– derivatives
algal adjective.
algal adjective.
– origin C16: from L., ‘seaweed’.
'alga' also found in these Oxford entries:
alginic acid
- blanket weed
- chlamydomonas
- chlorella
- crustose
- cryptogam
- desmid
- diatom
- lichen
- nostoc
- spirogyra
