Crossword-Solution: CONFERVA 8 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

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Conferva n. Any unbranched, slender, green plant of the fresh-water
algae. The word is frequently used in a wider sense.

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ANY OF VARIOUS ALGAE OF THE GENUS TRIBONEMA 11 answers
ALGAE WITH BRANCHING FILAMENTS THAT FORM SCUM IN STILL OR STAGNANT FRESH WATER 11 answers
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with CONFERVA (5)

Watt and his men on a former visit, was merely soaked with the sprays; but the joisting-beams which supported it had, in the course of the winter, been covered with a fine downy conferva produced by the range of the sea.
Records of a Family of Engineers Robert Louis Stevenson 2010
But if the conferva or parasitic fungus exceeds its allies in the above respects, it will then be dominant within its own class.
On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin 1999
Fragments of the scoriae embedded in the calcareous mass, when broken, exhibit many of their cells lined and partly filled with a white, delicate, excessively fragile, moss-like, or rather conferva-like, reticulation of carbonate of lime.
Geological Observations on the Volcanic Islands Charles Darwin 2002
Fragments of the scoriæ embedded in the calcareous mass, when broken, exhibit many of their cells lined and partly filled with a white, delicate, excessively fragile, moss-like, or rather conferva-like, reticulation of carbonate of lime.
Coral Reefs, Volcanic Islands, South American Geology Charles Darwin 2003
The water of the cold spring is sweet but not good, and emits gaseous bubbles; it was covered with a green floating _Conferva._ Of the four hot springs, the most copious is about three feet deep, bubbles constantly, boils eggs, and though brilliantly clear, has an exceedingly nauseous taste.
Himalayan Journals, V1 J. D. Hooker 2004