Synonyms for algae
ˈæl dʒial·gae

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1. alga, algaenoun

   primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves

   Synonyms:
   alga

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1. thermophile

   an organism that has adapted to living in very high temperatures(heat),such as bacteria or algae.

   Submitted by JP03 on March 13, 2015  

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1. List of paraphrases for "algae":

   algal, seaweed, alga, seaweeds, kelp, seaplants, microalgae

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1. Kathy Bailey:

   The food was thrown down on the feces for the dog to eat. The water bucket had old straw and feces on it and the water inside was full of algae.

2. John Burt:

   Over 99 % of the algae in Persian Gulf corals are from this one species.

3. Sam Hook:

   If we looked at these warming rates, a project of what would happen in the next century then what we would see is that algal blooms would go up by about 20 percent, this is the green algae that you see in the lakes, often times in the summer and some of that green algae that is added, some of it contains harmful toxins and so what it can do is, it puts restrictions on people going out on the water or using the water for drinking purposes and things like that. So, there are real consequences to the actual lake ecosystem.

4. Kelly Taylor:

   We are kind of speculating that perhaps it was washed out during one of the flooding events in Louisiana, it had a significant amount of algae on it's back that leads us to speculate that it was floating in the Gulf for a while.

5. Sean Connolly:

   The severity and frequency of these [bleaching] events means slow-growing corals won't have time to come back, if all the coral bleaches and dies, it's no longer a coral reef. The coral skeletons are quickly colonized by algae which turns them dark in color.