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Aquatic one-celled plant
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diatom
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Word definitions for diatom in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1845, coined from Greek diatomos "cut in two," from diatemnein "to cut through," from dia- "through" (see dia- ) + temnein "to cut" (see tome ). So called because they typically appear to have been cut in half. Related: Diatomic .
Usage examples of diatom.
I was the blue-green algae floating on the currents, soaking up sunlight, and I was a diatom and an arrowworm and a kerfer slicing open the soft tissues of a jellyfish.
The basic structure of the two diatom graphs was the same -- a perfect Bernaud diagram.
The doctor kindly offered to send him the best microscope in Srinagar, the property of a colleague whose mania was diatoms.
The way they tolt me, marine life fed on diatoms, which is these colonies of algae.
Yoke sent her control mesh out over the sullenly floating imipolex cube and turned it back into seawater, complete with an assortment of local diatoms and plankton.
The biologicals were all alla-made realware: primarily coral polyps and the diatoms they fed upon.
Motile points of crimson light lived io the material and drifted about from place to place like diatoms on the crest of a wave. They tended, for whatever reason, to gravitate to the high points of her body.
But in order to facilitate axonal repair, I inserted DNA from a species of diatom.
She was swimming out through layers of life, and she sensed the subtle sounds of living things washing through the sphere: the smooth rush of the fish as they swam in their tight schools, the bubbling murmur of the krill on which they browsed, the hiss of the diatoms and algae that fed them, and the deep infrasonic rumble of the water itself, compression waves pulsing through its bulk.
Musing over his spherical field-bound pond, stirring it with a glass rod, watching the algae twine on the rod, making history among the micro-organisms, the paramecia and rotifers, the euglenoids and diatoms, the desmids, amphipods, ostracods, wreaking havoc among the daphnia.
After all, humans did eat the desmids, which differed from the diatoms only in three particulars: Their shells were flexible, they could not move (and for that matter neither could all but a few groups of diatoms), and they did not speak.
The smothering toxicity of the dinoflagellates as they cluster and bloom into a red tide kills the diatoms.
Bigheaded carp cause blue-green algae to predominate, whereas Silver Chinese carp, which are phytoplankton eaters, produce a shift toward diatom algae.
In addition, sulphur compounds deriving from algae and diatoms, mixed with the ozone generated by the sparks of electric cars and tramways, impregnate the air throughout the galleries and stalls.
Among plankton, some species were practically wiped out—92 percent of foraminiferans, for instance—while other organisms like diatoms, designed to a similar plan and living alongside, were comparatively unscathed.