spirogyra
/ˌspʌɪrə(ʊ)ˈdʒʌɪrə
/noun Botany
A filamentous green alga of a genus that includes blanket weed.
- Genus Spirogyra, division Chlorophyta.
- The spirogyras send their contents through the conjugations tubes to the other one.
- It was a picture of spirogyra, a single cell organism, taken through a microscope.
Origin
Modern Latin, from spiro-1 'spiral' + Greek guros, gura 'round'.