confervae
- plural of conferva.
Example Sentences
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"The majestic flow" of confervae remarked by Livingstone on the Tanganyika is beyond my comprehension, if that vast lake has no outlet at the north.
From Ismailia by Baker, Samuel White, Sir
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 Hardy, Thomas
In almost every long voyage some account is given of these confervae.
From The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles
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 Craig, Austin
These are minute cylindrical confervae, in bundles or rafts of from twenty to sixty in each.
From The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles
