Desmic vs Desmid - What's the difference?
desmic | desmid |
Related such that each edge of one cuts a pair of opposite edges of the other. 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 an adjective desmic
is related such that each edge of one cuts a pair of opposite edges of the other.As a noun desmid is
any of about 5000 species of mostly unicellular freshwater green algae belonging to the order desmidiales.desmic
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Adjective
(-)desmid
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(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.