different between alga vs heterokont
alga
English
Etymology
From Latin alga.
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?æl.??/
Noun
alga (plural algae)
- (biology) Any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms, including the seaweeds, whose size ranges from a single cell to giant kelps and whose biochemistry and forms are very diverse, some being eukaryotic.
Usage notes
- Algaes is a non-standard plural.
Hyponyms
- (photosynthetic aquatic organism): seaweed; green alga (Chlorophyta and Charophyta) and red alga (Rhodophyta and Glaucophyta) in Plantae); brown alga (Phaeophyceae) and yellow-green algae (Xanthophyceae), Haptophyta, and Cryptomonada in Chromista), and blue-green alga (Cyanobacteria)
- microalga
Translations
Further reading
- Algae on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Gaal, Gala, agal, gala
Catalan
Etymology
From Latin alga.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central) IPA(key): /?al.??/
- (Valencian) IPA(key): /?al.?a/
Noun
alga f (plural algues)
- alga
Further reading
- “alga” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Faroese
Etymology
From Latin alga.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?alka/
- Rhymes: -alka
Noun
alga f (genitive singular algu, plural algur)
- alga
Declension
Galician
Etymology
From Latin alga.
Pronunciation
Noun
alga f (plural algas)
- alga
Derived terms
- alga parda
- alga verde
- alga vermella
Further reading
- “alga” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.
Irish
Etymology
Borrowed from English alga, from Latin alga.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?al?(?)??/
Noun
alga m (genitive singular alga, nominative plural algaí)
- (biology) alga
- Synonym: feamainn
Declension
Derived terms
Mutation
Further reading
- "alga" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
- Entries containing “alga” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.=
Italian
Etymology
From Latin alga.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?al.?a/
Noun
alga f (plural alghe)
- seaweed
Anagrams
- gala
Further reading
- alga in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *alg-, *al?- (“to be dirty, be slimy; frog; duckweed”). Cognate with Norwegian dialectal alka (“to dirty, soil”), Norwegian ulk (“frog, slime”), Low German ulk (“frog”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?al.?a/, [?ä???ä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?al.?a/, [??l??]
Noun
alga f (genitive algae); first declension
- Seaweed; plants that grow in freshwater.
- (figuratively) Something of little worth.
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
- algensis
- alg?sus
Descendants
Latvian
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
Noun
alga f (4th declension)
- salary, wage
- reward
- pay
Declension
Synonyms
- algojums
- atalgojums
- atmaksa
- atl?dzin?jums
- atl?dz?ba
- g?jiens
- izpe??a
- maksa
- pe??a
- samaksa
- uzturs
Lithuanian
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h?elg??-eh?, from *h?elg??-. Cognate with Latvian àlga (“salary”), Old Prussian ?lgas (“salary”, Gsg.), Ancient Greek ???? (alph?, “gain, profit”), Sanskrit ???? (arghá, “worth, value, price”).
Pronunciation
Noun
algà f stress pattern 4
- pay, salary
Old Spanish
Etymology
From Latin algam, accusative of alga.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?al.?a]
Noun
alga f (plural algas)
- alga, seaweed
- c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 50r.
- […] Et la ?u olor es como de alga marina. ¬ dend toma e?te nóbre
- […] Its smell is like that of seaweed, thus the name it has been given.
- […] Et la ?u olor es como de alga marina. ¬ dend toma e?te nóbre
- c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 50r.
Derived terms
- alguenno
Descendants
- Spanish: alga
Portuguese
Etymology
From Latin alga.
Pronunciation
- (Portugal) IPA(key): [?a???]
- (Brazil) IPA(key): [?aw?a]
- (Caipira) IPA(key): [?a??a]
- Rhymes: -aw?a
- Hyphenation: al?ga
Noun
alga f (plural algas)
- alga (any of many aquatic photosynthetic organisms similar to plants or bacteria)
Derived terms
- algáceo
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Latin alga.
Pronunciation
Noun
alga f (Cyrillic spelling ????)
- alga
Spanish
Etymology
From Latin alga.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?al?a/, [?al.??a]
Noun
alga f (plural algas)
- alga
Derived terms
Further reading
- “alga” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.
alga From the web:
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heterokont
English
Etymology
Ancient Greek ?????? (héteros, “other, another, different”) + ?????? (kontós, “pole”) (which is from ?????? (kenté?)).
Noun
heterokont (plural heterokonts)
- (biology) Any member of the superphylum Heterokonta, most of which are algae
Adjective
heterokont (not comparable)
- (biology) Having flagella of unequal length
Synonyms
- isokont
Anagrams
- tenter hook, tenter-hook, tenterhook
heterokont From the web:
- what is heterokont flagella
- what is heterokont in plants
- heterokont meaning
- heterokont flagella are found in
- what is the role of flagella
- what is the purpose of flagella
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