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Freshwater algae
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spirogyra
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Spirogyra is a genus of algae. Spirogyra may also refer to: Spirogyra (band) , a British folk/prog rock band Spyro Gyra , an American jazz fusion band Spirogyra Lake , a lake in the South Orkney islands
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n. freshwater algae consisting of minute filaments containing spiral chlorophyll bands
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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.
Usage examples of spirogyra.
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.