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algivore en · NOUN

Etymology

From algae + -vore.

Meanings

  1. An organism that consumes algae.
    • The fewest algivores occurred in April 1983, only months after a devastating flood. But after that, numbers of algivores went up dramatically in summer 1983 and were relatively high in winter 1994, spring 1995, and again in summer 2012. 2017, William John Matthews, Stream Fish Community Dynamics: A Critical Synthesis:

Forms

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Deriveds

macroalgivore

Translations (1)

pl algożerca (organism that consumes algae)