algae - use in sentences
Converse of subject
- dominate: Lower infralittoral Sparse kelp park, dominated by foliose algae except where grazed.
Converse of object
- single-cel: In the oceans around Antarctica, carbon uptake is carried out by minute single-celled algae.
- encrust: Look for them in March/April in the shallow pools lined with pink encrusting stony algae.
- eat: Scientists suspect they could have eaten sea algae, which can produce acid poisoning.
- remove: Now is the time to give your patio surface a clean, removing any algae which can be slippery.
- kill: As is usual in these cases, the tremendous input of cold water probably killed the algae in the pool.
Adjective modifier
- blue-green: Water Quality In The Lake: Blue-green algae has appeared in the lake during late summer.
- filamentous: The chief diet of frog tadpoles, in the early part of their life is filamentous algae.
- coralline: It is mainly composed of the tests of coralline algae indicating deposition in a shallow gulf environment.
- symbiotic: Most anemones have symbiotic algae that live in their tissues.
- unicellular: These are unicellular algae characterized by the silicified cell made by two halves.
- microscopic: Dead, microscopic algae will clump together into particles large enough to be removed by filtration.
Modifies a noun
- eater: Both are very peaceful community fish and the catfish is an algae eater and great tank clean... .. .
- bloom: They now think she could have become intoxicated by a natural toxin found in algae blooms.
- extract: Ingredients: 90 % algae extract, Linden, Hypericum, Cornflower, Chamomile.
- wrap: This also applies if you've spent all day in an algae wrap.
- growth: In the summer months, however, algae growth in the warmer water can reduce visibility down to just a few meters!
Noun used with modifier
- freshwater: There are over 2,200 species of freshwater algae known to exist in the British Isles and there is nothing wrong with them as such.
- micro: Time trends highly concentrated in the summer, less so in the winter ( micro algae growth in the summer months ).
- string: Another way to help with string algae is to raise your salt level in the pond.
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