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| complete body of a seaweed |
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| leaf-like portion of the thallus of a seaweed |
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| a gas-filled bladder in seaweeds |
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| the stem-like portion of the thallus of seaweeds |
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| the root-like portion of the thallus of a seaweed |
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| seaweeds in which chlorophyll is not masked by other pigments |
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| seaweeds in which chlorophyll is not masked by other pigments, examples are ulva sea lettuce and surf grass |
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| seaweeds with a predominance of yellow and brown pigments |
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| the yellow to golden brown photsynthetic pigment of brown algae |
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| brown algae such as fucus that inhabit rocky shores in temperate areas |
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| large size and complexity, form dense kelp beds or kelp forests |
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| seaweeds that contain characteristic red pigments |
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| a group of photosynthetic pigments that includes phycocyenin, a bluish pigment in cyanobacteria, and a phycoerythrin a red pigment in red algae |
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| red algae that deposit calcium carbonate in their thallus |
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| describing an organism that grows as a crust over rocks and other hard surfaces |
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| a phycocolloid extracted from brown algae that is widely used in food processing |
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| a phycocolloid extracted from red algae that is widely used in food processing |
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| a commercially important phycocolloid extracted from red algae |
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| grass-like flowering plants such as eelgrass that are adapted to live at sea |
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| salt-tolerant grasses, species of spartina, inhabit salt marches |
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| a salt-tolerant terrestrial plant |
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| shrubs and trees that live along the seashore in tropical and subtropical regions and tolerate inundation by seawater |
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