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Definition of Confervae
1. conferva [n] - See also: conferva
Lexicographical Neighbors of Confervae
Literary usage of Confervae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (1909)
"... the first Colonists of Islands— Fernando Noronha—Bahia—Burnished Rocks—Habits
of a Diodon —Pelagic confervae and Infusoria—Causes of discoloured Sea. ..."
2. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1826)
"It is evident, however, that they are only filaments of confervae, the ends of
which are often covered, and imbedded in the substance of the coralline, ..."
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