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desmid
noun
des·mid ˈdez-məd 
: any of numerous unicellular or colonial green algae (order Zygnematales, especially family Desmidiaceae)
Word History
Etymology
from the stem of New Latin Desmidiaceae, family name (as if ending in -id entry 1), from Desmidium, genus name (from Greek desmós "something that ties or attaches, (in plural) bonds, chain" —from déō, deîn "to bind, tie" + -smos, noun suffix— + -idion, diminutive suffix) + -aceae -aceae — more at diadem
Note: The taxonomic literature credits the description of the genus Desmidium to the English botanist John Ralfs (1807-90), in The British Desmidieæ (London, 1848), p. 61. Ralfs took the name Desmidium swartzii from an earlier description by the Swedish clergyman and botanist Carl Adolph Agardh (1785-1859), in Systema algarum (Lund, 1824), p. 9.
First Known Use
1862, in the meaning defined above
- not touch (someone or something) with a ten-foot pole
- not touch a drop
- not touch someone or something with a bargepole
- not touch someone or something with a ten-foot pole
- not touch with a bargepole
- not touch with a ten-foot pole
- not turn a hair
- not under any circumstances no circumstances
- not under any circumstances/under no circumstances
- not under any obligation
- not under any under no circumstances
- not unless
- not unlike
- not until
- not up to expectations
- not up to much
- not utter a word
- not wearing a stitch
- not wearing a stitch (of clothes
- not wearing a stitch (of clothes/clothing)
- not wearing a stitch of clothing
- not worry oneself
- not worth a damn
- not worth a darn
- not worth the candle