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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Conferva \Con*fer"va\, n.; pl {Conferv[ae]}. [L., a kind of water plant. See {Comfrey}.] (Bot.) Any unbranched, slender, green plant of the fresh-water algae. The word is frequently used in a wider sense From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: conferva n : any of various algae of the genus Tribonema; algae with branching filaments that form scum in still or stagnant fresh water
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