Protosiphon

noun

Pro·​to·​siphon

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: a genus (the type of the family Protosiphonaceae) of unicellular multinucleate freshwater green algae consisting of a single form (P. botryoides) that is broadly tubular or more or less balloon-shaped and grows often confusingly mingled with Botrydium attached to mud by a single rarely branching rhizoid

protosiphonaceous

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adjective

Word History

Etymology

New Latin, from prot- + Greek siphōn siphon, tube, pipe

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