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primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves (Freq. 6)

↑seaweed, ↑golden algae, ↑yellow-green algae, ↑diatom, ↑confervoid algae, ↑brown algae, ↑euglenoid, ↑euglenophyte, ↑euglenid, ↑green algae, ↑chlorophyte, ↑chlorella, ↑red algae, ↑cryptomonad, ↑cryptophyte

in some classifications : a major group of lower plants that is often included in Thallophyta, that comprises usually photosynthetic plants of extremely varied morphology and physiology, and that is now commonly considered to be a heterogeneous assemblage — see alga, fungi

—algal, adj.

/al"jee/, n.pl., sing. alga /-geuh/.

any of numerous groups of chlorophyll-containing, mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms ranging from microscopic single-celled forms to multicellular forms 100 ft. (30 m) or more long, distinguished from plants by the absence of true roots, stems, and leaves and by a lack of nonreproductive cells in the reproductive structures: classified into the six phyla Euglenophyta, Crysophyta, Pyrrophyta, Chlorophyta, Phaeophyta, and Rhodophyta. Cf. blue-green algae.

[ < NL, pl. of L alga seaweed]

Alˈgae plural noun (botany)

A group (usu classified separately from other plants) of prokaryotic and eukaryotic photosynthetic organisms without roots, stems or leaves, the seaweeds and related forms

Main Entry: ↑alga

algae UK [ˈældʒiː] UK [ˈælɡiː] US [ˈældʒi] noun [plural] biology

plants that have no roots, stems, or leaves and grow in water or in other wet places

Thesaurus: plants that grow in water_hyponym

algae [ˈældʒiː] [ˈældʒiː] [ˈælɡiː] [ˈælɡiː] noun uncountable, plural (sing. alga [ˈælɡə] ; [ˈælɡə] )(technical)

very simple plants, such as ↑seaweed, that have no real leaves, ↑stems or roots, and that grow in or near water

Derived Word: ↑algal  

[algae algal] mid 16th cent.: from Latin, seaweed.