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Alga vs Aetheogam - What's the difference?

alga | aetheogam |

As nouns the difference between alga and aetheogam

is that alga is start while aetheogam is .

alga

English

(wikipedia alga)

Noun

(algae)
  • (biology) Any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms, whose size ranges from a single cell to giant kelps and whose form is very diverse; some are eukaryotic and some prokaryotic; includes the seaweeds.

    • Usage notes

    * (term) is a non-standard plural.

    Hyponyms

    * seaweed

    Anagrams

    * * English nouns with irregular plurals ----

    aetheogam

    English

    Alternative forms

    *

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (botany) A cryptogam; a plant of the obsolete taxonomic class Cryptogamia , having neither stamina nor pistils, and therefore no proper flowers, such as an alga, fern, fungus, lichen or moss.

    • Usage notes

    * Being derived from the two vowels ) being optional; the spellings *''ætheogam'' and *''etheogam are, therefore, erroneous.

    Derived terms

    * aetheogamous (botany)

    Synonyms

    * cryptogam

    References