algoidadj.

1852 New Orleans Med. & Surg. Jrnl. July 117 We have here 1st, a composite cell, strictly analogous to other animal and algoid cells.

1874 M. C. Cooke Fungi 12 The supposed algoid nature of gonidia.

1902 Jrnl. Sanitary Inst. 22 120 Almost the whole of their experiments were conducted in the winter six months, a period in which algoid growths are conspicuous by their absence.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 1055 The surface waters team profusely with algoid organisms.

2000 La Ricerca Folklorica 42 159/2 The incident demonstrates the creative process of social representation developed in the case of algoid invasions in the Venice Lagoon.