Crossword-Solution: CONFERVA
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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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. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “CONFERVA”
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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.
Hint 2 anagram
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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.
But if the conferva or parasitic fungus exceeds its allies in the above respects, it will then be dominant within its own class.
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.
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.
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.