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Freshwater algae consisting of minute filaments containing spiral chlorophyll bands
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spirogyra
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Spirogyra are a British folk / prog band that recorded three albums between 1971 and 1973, with further original albums in 2009 and 2011.
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n. Any of a group of freshwater, filamentous green algae, of the genus (taxlink Spirogyra genus noshow=1), having chloroplasts arranged in spirals.
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n. freshwater algae consisting of minute filaments containing spiral chlorophyll bands
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Clumps of dried air-weed and red kelp were encrusted across the bitumened plates of the pontoon, shrivelled and burnt by the sun before they could reach the railing around the laboratory, while a dense refuse-filled mass of sargassum and spirogyra cushioned their impact as they reached the narrow jetty, oozing and subsiding like an immense soggy raft.
Phalaris Canariensis, 62 Hofmeister, on the curious movement of Spirogyra, 3, 259, n.
This bladder you see inside at the center, with the hollow spirogyra straws leading out from it to the skin of the ship, is a buoyancy tank.