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diatom
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[ noun ] (biology,botany) microscopic unicellular marine or freshwater colonial alga having cell walls impregnated with silica
Used in print (L. Don Leet and Florence J. Leet, editors, The World of...)Japanese fishermen have sometimes observed that sardines hauled up in their nets during a tsunami have enormously swollen stomachs ; the fish have swallowed vast numbers of bottom living diatoms , raised to the surface by the disturbance . Related terms |
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