From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Alga \Al"ga\, n.; pl. {Alg[ae]} or {algae}. [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. The algae are primitive
chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms
lacking true stems and roots and leaves.
[1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
alga
n 1: primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic
organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves [syn:
{alga}, {algae}]
From Latin-English Freedict dictionary [fd-lat-eng]:
alga
alga; seaweed
From Portuguese-English Freedict dictionary [fd-por-eng]:
alga
alga; seaweed
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