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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small genus of red seaweeds, typical of the tribe Lomentarieæ, having filamentous, branching, hollow fronds with constricted joints formed of one or more layers of roundish-angular cells, with a few longitudinal filaments in the center, tripartite tetraspores, and external sessile cystocarps.

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