Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various green unicellular chiefly freshwater algae of the order Desmidiales, reproducing through conjugation and sometimes forming filaments or colonies.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plant of the order Desmidiaceæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A microscopic plant of the family
Desmidiæ , a group of unicellular algæ in which the species have a greenish color, and the cells generally appear as if they consisted of two coalescing halves.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of about 5000
species of mostlyunicellular freshwater green algae belonging to the orderDesmidiales .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun freshwater green algae
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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She returned to New Zealand in the fifties and wrote the three definitive books on desmid taxonomy.
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She returned to New Zealand in the fifties and wrote the three definitive books on desmid taxonomy.
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Closterium - Closterium is a desmid, a microscopic green algae that occurs in all types of freshwater habitats.
unknown title 2009
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Strikingly symmetrical, each individual desmid is divided into two mirror-image halves, or semicells, which are connected by an isthmus that contains the nucleus.
unknown title 2009
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Strikingly symmetrical, each individual desmid is divided into two mirror-image halves, or semicells, which are connected by an isthmus that contains the nucleus.
unknown title 2009
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Closterium - Closterium is a desmid, a microscopic green algae that occurs in all types of freshwater habitats.
unknown title 2009
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Strikingly symmetrical, each individual desmid is divided into two mirror-image halves, or semicells, which are connected by an isthmus that contains the nucleus.
unknown title 2009
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Strikingly symmetrical, each individual desmid is divided into two mirror-image halves, or semicells, which are connected by an isthmus that contains the nucleus.
unknown title 2009
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