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Conferva

noun

(pl. confervae)

Any of various algae of the genus Tribonema; algae with branching filaments that form scum in still or stagnant fresh water.

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... whole thickness of the shelly layers, and attached, apparently, by their apices, to the underlying corium. As the spines are very numerous, so are the parallel rows of tubuli. After the shelly layers had been dissolved, there was left in L. dorsalis (well seen in the latera), an extraordinary, conferva-like mass of branching, jointed, excessively thin tubes, sometimes slightly enlarged at the articulations, and appearing to contain brown granular matter: other portions of the valves, instead of this appearance, exhibited membranes or films with similar, ...

— A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) - The Lepadidae; or, Pedunculated Cirripedes • Charles Darwin

... devotions for the brighter and newer chapels of the fashionable churches in Ravenna. So the old monk is left alone to sweep the marsh water from his church floor, and to keep the green moss from growing too thickly on its monuments. A clammy conferva covers everything except the mosaics upon tribune, roof, and clerestory, which defy the course of age. Christ on His throne sedet aternumque sedebit: the saints around him glitter with their pitiless uncompromising eyes and wooden gestures, as if twelve centuries ...

— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds

Words linked to "Conferva" : Tribonema, yellow-green algae, genus Conferva, genus Tribonema