chlamydomonasn.
/klamɪdəˈməʊnəs/ Botany.
A unicellular, flagellate, green alga, belonging to the class Chlorophyceæ and widely distributed in fresh water.
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1884 A. Henfrey Elem. Bot. (ed. 4) ii. 427 Chlamydomonas consists of a single biciliated primordial cell with an eye-spot and two contractile vacuoles.
1935 F. E. Fritsch Struct. & Reprod. Algae I. 79 The flagella in Chlamydomonas and its allies consist of a thicker basal portion and a long thin whip-like termination.
1949 New Biol. 6 94 A typical Chlamydomonas..is an ovoid cell.
1967 Punch 31 May 813/2 Some stuff for cleaning the carpet that brought out both Mrs. Jones and the carpet in a fine emerald-green rash of chlamydomonas.
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