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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

microalga en · NOUN

Etymology

From micro- (“small”) + alga.

Meanings

  1. Any of many microscopic photosynthetic protists, often living as single cells and floating as plankton.

Forms

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Antonyms

macroalga

Deriveds

microalgal

Synonyms

phytoplankton

Translations (8)

pl mikroalga (microscopic photosynthetic protists) · fr micro-algue (microscopic photosynthetic protists) · it microalga (microscopic photosynthetic protists) · pl mikroglon (microscopic photosynthetic protists) · fr micro-algues (microscopic photosynthetic protists) · nn mikroalge (microscopic photosynthetic protists) · nb mikroalge (microscopic photosynthetic protists) · es microalga (microscopic photosynthetic protists)