green algae

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plural noun

any grass-green, chiefly freshwater algae of the phylum Chlorophyta, often growing on wet rocks, damp wood, or on the surface of stagnant water.

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Origin of green algae

First recorded in 1900–05

Words nearby green algae

Greeley, Horace, Greely, green, green about the gills, green alga, green algae, green audit, Greenaway, greenback, green-backed heron, Greenback party

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How to use green algae in a sentence

The team found IsrB genes inside a type of green algae, which was able to cleave DNA easily in the lab.
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Until then, she and other scientists had thought the sun provided all the energy green algae need.
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For the new study, her team looked for these genes in other species of green algae.
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I really wanted Trenchmouth to succeed and at the time wished we were as big as Green Day.
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It’s cool because Trenchmouth opened for Green Day in the early ‘90s in Wisconsin.
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I just did one [Geezer] with Billie Joe Armstrong from Green Day.
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It took me 1,015 strokes to see this shade of green in a world of orange, and my jaw nearly dropped.
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At the highest navigable point of the Congo River, thick jungle creates an impenetrable wall of green around a large island.
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With the dispersal of the spores the cone shrivels up, and then the stems starts to send out green branches.
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The plant as a whole remains green until late in the autumn.
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A few, very few, little dots had run back over that green patch—the others had passed down into the world of darkness.
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I could see only the stretch of green before me, and I felt as if I must walk on forever, without coming to the end of it.
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It was a spring day, and the fat buds of the chestnuts were bursting into magnificent green plumes.
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British Dictionary definitions for green algae

green algae

pl n

the algae of the phylum Chlorophyta, which possess the green pigment chlorophyll. The group includes sea lettuce and spirogyra

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