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algae

[al-jee] / ˈæl dʒi /
NOUN
rootless, leafless plants living in water
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Associate Professor Fan said: "After years of fieldwork, we finally found several sites with the right conditions where animal fossils are preserved together with the abundant algae."

From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026

Some cichlids evolved into predators, while others specialized in feeding on algae, sifting sand, or consuming plankton.

From Science Daily • Apr. 1, 2026

Starting in the late 2000s, the company ran a nearly ubiquitous series of television commercials touting the potential to produce a biofuel from algae that could one day fuel “trucks, buses, boats, cars, even airplanes.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

In outdoor settings, sugarcane and palm were more prolific than algae in the results that Exxon researchers shared with Wojnar, while corn was about on par, the internal documents show.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

And I didn’t think about the alligators or the disgusting layer of brackish algae.

From "Paper Towns" by John Green




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