Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or resembling algae.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling algæ.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of the nature of, or resembling, an alga.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Resembling, or characteristic of
algae
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or resembling algae
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Examples
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Sometimes biciliated minute cells are found; without any doubt they are zoospores derived from any algoid or fungoid species.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 385, May 19, 1883 Various
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Their mode of division, too, is thoroughly algoid.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 Various
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