Crossword-Solution: SPIROGYRA
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| green freshwater plant that floats on the surface of ponds and ditches | 1 answer |
| Algae product | 10 answers |
| ALGAE GENUS | 11 answers |
| ANY OF VARIOUS ALGAE OF THE GENUS TRIBONEMA | 11 answers |
| ALGAE | 13 answers |
| alga | 14 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZECAEM
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eruption
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The hacker's musical range tends to be wide; many can listen with equal appreciation to (say) Talking Heads, Yes, Gentle Giant, Spirogyra, Scott Joplin, Tangerine Dream, King Sunny Ade, The Pretenders, or Bach's Brandenburg Concerti.
They are very common and familiar plants, some of them forming great floating masses upon the surface of every stagnant pond and ditch, being commonly known as "pond scum." The commonest of these pond scums belong to the genus _Spirogyra_, and one of these will illustrate the characteristics of the order.
The number of these bands varies much in different species of _Spirogyra_, but is commonly two or three.
This green variety is often seen as a spongy coating to the surface of stagnant pools, which goes by the name of "frog spawn" or "pond scum." One of this description, _Spirogyra_, has done thousands of dollars' worth of damage by smothering the life out of young water-cress plants in artificial beds constructed for winter propagation.
The formulæ vary from 1 part of copper to 100,000 parts of water, necessary to destroy the most resistant and very rare forms (three of these are listed), to 1 part of copper in 25,000,000 parts of water, which is a sufficiently strong solution to exterminate _Spirogyra_, the cress-bed pest.