Relating to or containing algae, or characterized by the presence of algae.
From Modern Latin 'alga' (seaweed, algae), derived from Latin 'algere' (to be cold), combined with the suffix '-ic.' The term developed as biologists classified and studied aquatic plant life.
Algae are so simple (just single cells or clumps of cells) that they don't fit neatly into the plant kingdom, so scientists invented a whole separate category for them—and they produce about half the oxygen in our atmosphere, more than all forests combined.
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