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confervoid, a. and n. Bot.|kənˈfɜːvɔɪd|
[f. as prec. + -oid.]
A. adj. Of the nature of or resembling a Conferva; composed of articulated filaments; ‘also, applied to diseases caused by parasitic vegetations’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
1830Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 311 A body resembling a bundle of confervoid threads. 1869E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 51 Algæ and confervoid growths.
B. n. An alga of the genus Conferva or of any allied genus; ‘any low vegetable growth in stagnant water’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
1854Griffith & Henfrey Microgr. Dict. (ed. 2) 175/2 Larger..than those of any other Confervoids. 1867J. Hogg Microsc. ii. i. 266 The simplest forms of vegetable life are met with in the Confervoids. 1882A. W. Blyth Foods 542 The moving reproductive spores of confervoids. |