Crossword clues for alga
alga
- Fish tank organism
- Chlorophyllous organism
- Bit of ocean life
- Bit of kelp, e.g
- Aquarium organism
- Aquarium dweller
- Some plankton
- Simple water dweller
- Sea lettuce, for one
- Sargassum, e.g
- Pool growth
- Pond scum component
- Piece of scum
- Minuscule lake plant
- Fish food plant
- Chlorophyllous plant
- Birdbath bit
- Agar source
- Tiny tank plant
- Tiny aquatic organism
- Stagnant water growth
- Snack for a surgeonfish
- Simple plant
- Seaweed plant
- Sea grass, e.g
- Rootless water life
- Rootless pond growth
- Primitive water plant
- Pond scum source
- Part of a pond problem
- Microscopic pond life
- Lake organism
- It creates energy through photosynthesis
- Green organism
- Blue-green plant
- Blue-green growth
- Blue-green birdbath bit
- Bit of phytoplankton
- Bit of kelp, say
- Word from the Latin for "seaweed"
- What seaweed is
- Wee bit of marine life
- Water silk, e.g
- Unwanted plant in a pool
- Unwanted aquarium collection
- Tiny pond growth
- Tiny lake organism
- Tank gunk
- Stillwater growth
- Spirulina, e.g
- Snapper's snack
- Small bit of rootless flora
- Simple marine plant
- Simple aquatic organism
- Seabeard, e.g
- Sea plant
- Sea moss or lettuce
- Salt water growth
- Rootless thing in a pond
- Primitive water organism
- Primitive non-flowering, mainly aquatic, plant
- Primitive aquatic plant
- Pool microorganism
- Pond tidbit
- Pond scum e.g
- Plant used in making biofuel
- Plant that's often pluralized
- Plant that lacks true roots and leaves
- Plant in a pond
- Plankton piece
- Plankton part
- Plankton morsel
- Plankton minutia
- Piece of pond scum
- Phycological unit
- Photosynthesizing aquarium denizen
- Part of many a snail's diet
- Oyster thief or mermaid's wineglass, e.g
- Oxygen releaser
- Minuscule lake organism
- Microscopic pond organism
- Latin word for "seaweed"
- Lake plant
- Kelp bit
- It helps turn a pond green
- Frog spit, e.g
- Fishtank organism
- Fish tank growth
- Component of a lichen
- Chlorophyll-containing organism
- Certain prokaryote
- Bit of pond growth
- Bit of fish tank gunk
- Bit of fish tank growth
- Bit of aquatic life
- Bit of aquarium scum
- Bit of aquarium residue
- Bit in a fish tank
- Birdbath cover?
- Bio fuel source
- Aquarium annoyance
- Anabaena or chlorella
- A single one of those things you see floating in the pool when you don't clean it
- A real piece of scum
- Spirogyra or frog spit
- Microscopic organism
- Microscopic life
- Bit of kelp, e.g.
- Pond organism
- Foot of a food chain
- Chlorophyta bit
- Stonewort, e.g.
- Tiny aquatic plant
- Marine ___
- Water growth
- Bit of plankton
- Bit of seafloor flora
- Bit of ocean flora
- Morsel for a sea snail
- Pond dweller
- Seaweed, for one
- Aquatic plant
- Sea lettuce, e.g.
- Pond floater
- Eukaryotic organism
- Chlorophyll-containing microorganism
- Lowlife?
- Bit of scum
- Aquarium growth
- It lacks roots
- Tiny organism that's often pluralized
- Pond plant
- Aquatic organisms
- Bit of aquarium growth
- Kelp, for one
- Bit of rootless flora
- Unwanted swimming pool bit
- Pool organism
- Mussel morsel
- Bit of marine life
- Simple aquatic plant
- Morsel for a guppy
- Film bit
- Sea grass, e.g.
- Bit of stagnant-water growth
- Bit of pond slime
- Bit of fish food
- Bit of seaweed
- Bit of birdbath gunk
- Fountain growth
- Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves
- Seaweed, e.g
- Anabaena or nostoc
- Pond growth
- Water plant
- Rootless plant
- Diatom or nostoc
- Sea greenery
- Sea moss constituent
- Stonewort, e.g
- Tiny ponddweller
- This plus a fungus equals a lichen
- Seabeard, e.g.
- Bit of Chlorophyta
- Rootless aquatic plant
- Kelp, e.g
- Rockweed, for one
- Primitive plant
- Filamentous plant
- Marine plant
- Chlorophyll plant
- Sea growth
- Pesky pool plant
- Fat-choy or nostoc
- Pond-scum component
- Sea lettuce, e.g
- Chlorophyll source
- Rockweed is one
- Unicellular plant
- Eg, seaweed
- Kind of seaweed
- Simple, non-flowering, aquatic plant
- Plant such as seaweed
- Flowerless plant
- Pond film
- Plankton component
- Pond scum organism
- Pool problem
- Pond life form
- Nonflowering plant
- Reef denizen
- Bit of pond scum
- Tiny pond plant
- Simple organism
- Pond cover
- Tiny pond organism
- Birdbath organism
- Marine growth
- Unwanted aquarium organism
- Green growth
- Bit of pond vegetation
- Bit of aquarium gunk
- Pond annoyance
- Lichen component
- Unwanted organism in an aquarium
- Stagnant water problem
- Pond-scum ingredient
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Alga \Al"ga\, n.; pl. Alg[ae] or algae. [L., seaweed.] (Bot.) A kind of seaweed; pl. the class of cellular cryptogamic plants which includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water conferv[ae], etc. The algae are primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
see algae.
Wiktionary
n. (context biology English) Any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms, whose size ranges from a single cell to giant kelps and whose form is very diverse; some are eukaryotic and some prokaryotic; includes the seaweeds.
WordNet
n. primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves [syn: algae]
Wikipedia
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Usage examples of "alga".
They were gradually adapting to living off algae they strained out of seawater.
But a simpler interpretation of the data suggests it to have been a purely physical effect caused by DDT particles adsorbing to the outside surfaces of the algae and cutting down the light supply.
The bus stops were built of tall glass tubes, aquaculture cylinders, murky green soups full of algae and fat, sluggish carp.
He talked microbes and biofilms and bacterial communities even when they reached the protruding tongue of slick, black stones leading into the first cave, even during all the business of docking and handing her over the side and mentioning that she just might want to watch out for the algae that made the cave entrance so slippery and oops, I forgot to mention that little bump just inside.
Eventually, those algae became the chloroplasts that now handle the processes of photosynthesis in plants.
And they were descended from primordial bacteria just as chloroplasts were from algae.
Vlad called a mix and match program, and recently they had come up with a variant of the cyanophyte that was sometimes called bluegreen algae.
I have not been provided with digitized examples or programs of appropriate animal sea life beyond algae.
There is a swimming pool and a fishpond behind the house, but these bodies of water are a stubborn, frothing, seething mess of algae in which monitor lizards float, their small faces hiding their large, hanging bodies, and in which there are scorpions and frogs in staggering numbers.
Algae did the rest, painting the geyserite in all the hues of the rainbow.
A sixty-centimetre stratum of water had been sandwiched between the spongy mud and lathery algae.
The striations contain the chlorophyll, and the little spheres nestling against these striations contain the phycobilins, which make a red alga red.
The stream was muddy, its stones slimed with algae, none of which seemed to bother the horses.
The vegetation which actually oxidized the saturated hydrocarbons of Mesklinite biological waste and gave off free hydrogen was represented by a variety of unicellular species corresponding as nearly as might be expected to terrestrial algae.
On Plates VII and VIII two kinds of unicellular organisms are shown, of one which - the green algae - is accustomed to live in light, the other - the bacilli - in darkness.