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desmid
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Desmid \Des"mid\, Desmidian \Des*mid"i*an\, n. [Gr. desmo`s chain + e'i^dos form.] (Bot.) A microscopic plant of the family Desmidi[ae], a group of unicellular alg[ae] in which the species have a greenish color, and the cells generally appear as if they consisted of two coalescing halves.
Wiktionary
n. Any of about 5000 species of mostly unicellular freshwater green algae belonging to the order Desmidiales.
WordNet
n. freshwater green algae
Usage examples of "desmid".
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.