Crossword-Solution: DIATOM
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Diatom | n. | One of the Diatomaceae, a family of minute unicellular Algae having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, each individual multiplying by spontaneous division. By some authors diatoms are called Bacillariae, but this word is not in general use. |
| Diatom | n. | A particle or atom endowed with the vital principle. |
We have 33 clues for the answer “DIATOM”
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "DIATOM"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Kind of apple
?
E
?
A
?
T
?
E
?
R
Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
14 +1
New Suggestion for "DIATOM"
Related word tools
Sentences with DIATOM (5)
The Diatoms are so called from their faculty of multiplying themselves indefinitely by splitting into two; and so rapidly is this process performed, that in a month a single diatom may produce a thousand millions.
That such extended knowledge should have been developed by that one little instrument, the lens, is but natural; for the lens is at once the means by which we discover the extreme magnitude of some portion of the infinite works of the Almighty in the architecture of the heavens, and by which we appreciate to some extent the extremely minute markings of a diatom that one cannot see with the naked eye.
But since the Naples variety contains a certain amount of ordinary green pigment, and since the Trieste variety is tolerably sure to contain some algæ, both spectroscopists have been operating on a mixture of two wholly distinct pigments--diatom-yellow and anthea-green.
The creature contained a number of spherical food spaces with sienna colored contents, a large diatom filled with endochrome, besides several clear food spaces, a posterior contractile vesicle, and the usual glanular endosarc.
Subsequently it was doubled upon itself, and at this point the amoeba limax discharged from one side of the tail end the siliceous case of the diatom, which now contained only a shrivelled cord of endochrome.
Quotes with DIATOM (1)
With these surface waters, through a series of delicately adjusted, interlocking relationship, the life of all parts of the sea is linked. What happens to a diatom in the upper, sunlit strata of the sea may well determine what happens to a cod lying on a ledge of some rocky canyon a hundred fathoms below, or to a bed of multicolored, gorgeously plumed seaworms carpeting an underlying shoal. or to a prawn creeping over the soft oozes of the sea floor in the balckness of mile-deep water.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 17 times in crossword archives (1945–2017).