meaning of diatoms
1. 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.
2. A particle or atom endowed with the vital principle.
3. microscopic unicellular marine or freshwater colonial alga having cell walls impregnated with silica
Related Words
diatom | diatomaceous earth | diatomic | diatomite | diatomophyceae | diatomous | diatonic | diatonic scale | diatonically |
