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Definition of Brown algae
1. Noun. Algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown and yellow pigments.
Group relationships: Class Phaeophyceae, Phaeophyceae
Specialized synonyms: Kelp, Fucoid, Fucoid Algae, Rockweed, Fucus Serratus, Serrated Wrack, Tang, Gulfweed, Sargasso, Sargassum, Sargassum Bacciferum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brown Algae
Literary usage of Brown algae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"brown algae. Almost all of the true brown algae are marine and they are ...
Such huge brown algae are not unknown along the sea-coast of the United States, ..."
2. Outlines of Botany for the High School Laboratory and Classroom by Robert Greenleaf Leavitt, Charles Herbert Clark, Mrs. Sophia M'Ilvaine (Bledsoe) Herrick, Asa Gray (1898)
"37-40; Bessey's "Essentials of Botany," pp. 180-182 ; Bower's " Practical Botany,"
pp. 409-418. CLASS II. The brown algae ..."
3. Plant-geography Upon a Physiological Basis by Andreas Franz Wilhelm Schimper (1903)
"Preponderance of brown Algae. Emerging and submerged belts. Reduced influence of
light. Temperature and periodicity. Change of fronds. ..."
4. A Treatise on the British Freshwater Algae by George Stephen West (1904)
"During recent years many genera of primitive brown Algae have been discovered,
most of which appear to be intermediate forms between the higher brown ..."
5. Botany by Wilfred William Robbins, John Nathan Martin (1919)
"brown algae (Phaeophyceae) These Algae are marine forms, occurring on all sea
coasts but more abundantly in the cooler waters. They have two pigments, ..."
6. Botany, with Agricultural Applications by John Nathan Martin (1920)
"brown algae (Phaeophyceae) These Algae are marine forms, occurring on all sea
coasts but more abundantly in the cooler waters. They have two pigments, ..."
7. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"no means so bulky as many of the brown algae, but they are much more ... They are
sometimes included among the brown algae, and sometimes among the red ..."
8. Applied and Economic Botany: Especially Adapted for the Use of Students in by Henry Kraemer (1914)
"E.—The Phaeophyceae, or brown algae, are distinguished by having brown chromatophores.
They are mostly found in the colder waters of the ocean, ..."
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