Diatom

['daɪətəm]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) microscopic unicellular marine or freshwater colonial alga having cell walls impregnated with silica.

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解釋/意思:

(n.) One of the Diatomaceae, a family of minute unicellular Algae having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, each individual multiplying by spontaneous division. By some authors diatoms are called Bacillariae, but this word is not in general use.

(n.) A particle or atom endowed with the vital principle.

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