conferva

How to use conferva in a sentence

• In the stomach of C. balnaris I found a considerable quantity of a conferva, too much, I think, to have got in accidentally.

  A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 2 of 2) | Charles Darwin

• The consequence has been an excessive growth of a conferva which is indigenous to these lakes and confined to them.

  Scientific American, Vol. XXXIX.No. 6. [New Series.], August 10, 1878 | Various

• The few species of diatoms first discovered were included by Lyngbye, Dillwyn, and others in the genus conferva.

  The Diatomaceae of Philadelphia and Vicinity | Charles Sumner Boyer

• A clammy conferva covers everything except the mosaics upon tribune, roof, and clerestory, which defy the course of age.

  Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series | John Addington Symonds

• The surface water again exhibited the same conferva-like bodies which were so abundantly obtained near Madeira.

  Cruise of the 'Alert' | R. W. Coppinger