Hypertext Webster Gateway: "alga"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Alga \Al"ga\, n.; pl. {Alg[ae]}. [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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
alga
n : primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic
organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves [syn: {algae}]
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