confervaceousadj.
/kɒnfəˈveɪʃəs/ Botany.
Of the nature of or allied to the genus Conferva; belonging to the family Confervaceæ, which some algologists have constituted for that genus and its allies.
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confervoid1830
confervaceous1853
glœocapsoid1857
nostochine1857
characeous1866
palmelloid1869
nostocaceous1872
phycochromaceous1873
volvocinaceous1874
rhodophycean1876
protococcal1879
oscillatoriaceous1881
protococcoid1882
volvocinean1885
naviculoid1894
charophytic1920
myxophycean1928
floridean1935
protococcoidal1965
1853 J. Phillips Rivers, Mountains, & Sea-coast Yorks. iv. 125 Siliceous parts of confervaceous plants.
1861 H. Macmillan Footnotes from Nature 164 The most singular of the confervaceous algæ.
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