conferva
noun
any simple filamentous green algae, many of which were formerly classified in the genus Conferva.
confervae
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pluralof conferva.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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These are minute cylindrical confervae, in bundles or rafts of from twenty to sixty in each.
From The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
We found it covered with green confervae; a double border of pistia and broad-leaved reed grasses, six to seven feet high, enclosing it all round.
From The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes by Austin Craig
I saw them here wading about in search of food — probably for the worms which burrow in the mud; and these latter probably feed on infusoria or confervae.
From The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
In almost every long voyage some account is given of these confervae.
From The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin
The inveterate antagonism of these black precipices to all strugglers for life is in no way more forcibly suggested than by the paucity of tufts of grass, lichens, or confervae on their outermost ledges.
From A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy
