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from The Century Dictionary.
- A small suborder of florideous algæ, typified by the genus Porphyra, and characterized by having browrnish-purple fronds, which are composed of cells embedded in a gelatinous network, and arranged in filaments or in membranes formed of a single layer of cells.
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