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Harmful ___ bloom (aquatic growth)
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algal
Alternative clues for the word algal
Word definitions for algal in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of or relating to alga
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Pertaining to, or like, algae. n. An alga.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Algal \Al"gal\, a., (Bot.) Pertaining to, or like, alg[ae]. [1913 Webster] ||
Usage examples of algal.
The upper sunlit layers were thick with a rich algal plankton, a crowded microscopic ecology.
These could be just mobile algal colonies-like volvox and other pond life on Earth.
The covers are weather-worn and tinged with an algal green--for once they sojourned in a ditch and some of the pages have been washed blank by dirty water.
In the far distance, a haze of lights, the dust of modern-day traffic rising like a red algal growth along the fringe of congestion.
Each wore a reddish-pink halo of algal bloom in which fan-tailed sievers of bloated mien held court, arcing and diving like pale prima donnas in a perpetual alien pax de deux.
The ship was surrounded on three sides not by algal blooms or lichenous mats but by actual low scrub.
Bits of ice clung to her cloak, and strings of algal slime festooned her hair.
The upper sunlit layers were thick with a rich algal plankton, a crowded microscopic ecology.
But the lake was choked with reeds and lilies and weeds, and on its surface he could see the sickly gray-green sheen of an algal bloom.
Tempt Season was when the adult islands released the algal blooms they’d been storing to paint fabulous swirling patterns across the craterine bays of their shallow sea.
Figures that she'd skimmed over earlier came back to her now: reaction equilibrium constants, rates of algal growth.
Suddenly they are banking over Manila Bay, which is marked with endless streaks of brilliant red--some kind of algal bloom.
Five metal streetlamps marked one channel for them, miraculously remaining upright after all these years, The conical algal encrustations around them were actually solidifying, turning them into cartoon desert islands.
Five metal streedamps marked one channel for them, miraculously remaining upright after all these years, The conical algal encrustations around them were actually solidifying, turning them into cartoon desert islands.
Natural problems generally responsible for huge fish kills around the world, like fluctuations in temperatures of surface water or algal blooms such as red tides, do not apply here.