cyanobacteria
blue-green algae | predominantly photosynthetic prokaryotic organisms containing a blue pigment in addition to chlorophyll, occur singly or in colonies in diverse habitats, important as phytoplankton |
| planktonic algae | unicellular algae |
alga
algae | primitive chlorophyllontaining mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves |
| seaweed | plant growing in the sea, especially marine algae |
| golden algae | algae having the pigments chlorophyll and carotene and xanthophyll |
| yellow-green algae | any alga of the division Chrysophyta with its chlorophyll masked by yellow pigment |
| confervoid algae | algae resembling confervae especially in having branching filaments |
| brown algae | algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown and yellow pigments |
| fucoid fucoid algae | any of various algae of the family Fucaceae |
green algae
chlorophyte | algae that are clear green in color, often growing on wet ricks or damp wood or the surface of stagnant water |
| red algae | marine algae in which the chlorophyll is masked by a red or purplish pigment, source of agar and carrageenan |
| plague spot | a spot on the skin characteristic of the plague |
| plague a | an annoyance, those children are a damn plague |
| plague | any large scale calamity (especially when thought to be sent by God) |
tin pest
tin disease
tin plague | the transformation of ordinary white tin into powdery grey tin at very cold temperatures |
outbreak
eruption irruption | a sudden violent spontaneous occurrence (usually of some undesirable condition), the outbreak of hostilities |
infestation
plague | a swarm of insects that attack plants, a plague of grasshoppers |
drug addiction
white plague | an addiction to a drug (especially a narcotic drug) |
plague pestilence
pest | any epidemic disease with a high death rate |
plague
pestilence pest pestis | a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal |
bubonic plague
pestis bubonica
glandular plague | the most common form of the plague in humans, characterized by chills, prostration, delirium and the formation of buboes in the armpits and groin, does not spread from person to person |
ambulant plague
ambulatory plague
pestis ambulans | a mild form of bubonic plague |
Black Death
Black Plague | the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe |
pneumonic plague
pulmonic plague
plague pneumonia | a rapidly progressive and frequently fatal form of the plague that can spread through the air from person to person, characterized by lung involvement with chill, bloody expectoration and high fever |
| septicemic plague | an especially dangerous and generally fatal form of the plague in which infecting organisms invade the bloodstream, does not spread from person to person |
pulmonary tuberculosis
consumption
phthisis
wasting disease
white plague | involving the lungs with progressive wasting of the body |
rinderpest
cattle plague | an acute infectious viral disease of cattle (usually fatal), characterized by fever and diarrhea and inflammation of mucous membranes |
b harass
hassle
harry
chivy
chivvy
chevy
chevvy
beset
plague
molest
provoke bbba | annoy continually or chronically, He is known to harry his staff when he is overworked, This man harasses his female co-workers |
blight
plague | cause to suffer a blight, Too much rain may blight the garden with mold |