Desid vs Desmid - What's the difference?
desid | desmid |
Any of about 5000 species of mostly unicellular freshwater green algae belonging to the order Desmidiales.
* 1981', Alan J. Brook, ''The Biology of Desmids'', University of California Press, ''Botanical Monographs'' ' 16 , page 1
As nouns the difference between desid and desmid
is that desid is any member of the Desidae while desmid is any of about 5000 species of mostly unicellular freshwater green algae belonging to the order Desmidiales.desmid
English
(Desmidiales)Noun
(en noun)- Desmids , which are exclusively freshwater algae, are so named because the first of these green microorganisms to be described were thought to be pairs of cells joined together, and the Greek word 'desmos' means a bond or chain.
