Edit page | Page history | Printable version

Alga

Origin: L, seaweed.

(Science: botany) 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 confervae, etc. Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves.