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Macrocystis  n.  (Bot.) An immensely long blackish seaweed of the Pacific (Macrocystis pyrifera), having numerous almond-shaped air vessels.





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... The Macrocystis pyrifera, an Alg, is the largest of all known plants. It is a sea weed that floats free and unattached in the ocean. Covers the area of two square miles, and is 300 feet in depth (Reinsch). At the same time its structure on examination shows it to belong to the same class of ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 • Various


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