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 |
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 |
beard worm pogonophoran | slender animal with tentacles and a tubelike outer covering, lives on the deep ocean bottom |
byssus beard | tuft of strong filaments by which e.g. a mussel makes itself fast to a fixed surface |
beard | hairy growth on or near the face of certain mammals |
bellarmine longbeard long-beard greybeard | a stoneware drinking jug with a long neck, decorated with a caricature of Cardinal Bellarmine (th century) |
beard face fungus whiskers | the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face |
imperial imperial beard | a small tufted beard worn by Emperor Napoleon III |
vandyke beard vandyke | a short pointed beard (named after the artist Anthony Vandyke) |
beard | a person who diverts suspicion from someone (especially a woman who accompanies a male homosexual in order to conceal his homosexuality) |
virgin's bower old man's beard devil's darning needle Clematis virginiana | common climber of eastern North America that sprawls over other plants and bears numerous panicles of small creamy white flowers |
traveler's joy traveller's joy old man's beard Clematis vitalba | vigorous deciduous climber of Europe to Afghanistan and Lebanon having panicles of fragrant green-white flowers in summer and autumn |
American pasqueflower Eastern pasque flower wild crocus lion's beard prairie anemone blue tulip American pulsatilla Pulsatilla patens Anemone ludoviciana | short hairy perennial with early spring blue-violet or lilac flowers, North America and Siberia |
hawk's-beard hawk's-beards | any of various plants of the genus Crepis having loose heads of yellow flowers on top of a long branched leafy stem, northern hemisphere |
crownbeard crown-beard crown beard | any plant of the genus Verbesina having clustered white or yellow flower heads |
cowpen daisy golden crownbeard golden crown beard butter daisy Verbesina encelioides Ximenesia encelioides | coarse greyish-green annual yellow-flowered herb, southwestern United States to Mexico |
broom beard grass prairie grass wire grass Andropogon scoparius Schizachyrium scoparium | handsome hardy North American grass with foliage turning pale bronze in autumn |
Jupiter's beard silverbush silver-bush Anthyllis barba-jovis | silvery hairy European shrub with evergreen foliage and pale yellow flowers |
Spanish moss old man's beard black moss long moss Tillandsia usneoides | dense festoons of greenish-grey hairlike flexuous strands anchored to tree trunks and branches by sparse wiry roots, southeastern United States and West Indies to South America |
golden-beard penstemon Penstemon barbatus | plant of southwestern United States having long open clusters of scarlet flowers with yellow hairs on lower lip |
beard lichen beard moss Usnea barbata | greenish grey pendulous lichen growing on trees |
beard | a tuft or growth of hairs or bristles on certain plants such as iris or grasses |
beard | go along the rim, like a beard around the chin, Houses bearded the top of the heights |