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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Diatom \Di"a*tom\, n. [Gr. ? cut in two See {Diatomous}.] 1. (Bot.) One of the Diatomace[ae], a family of minute unicellular Alg[ae] having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, each individual multiplying by spontaneous division. By some authors diatoms are called Bacillari[ae], but this word is not in general use 2. A particle or atom endowed with the vital principle. The individual is nothing. He is no more than the diatom, the bit of protoplasm. --Mrs. E. Lynn Linton. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: diatom n : microscopic unicellular marine or freshwater colonial alga having cell walls impregnated with silica
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