Definition of Conferval

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Conferval

conferrals
conferred
conferree
conferrees
conferrence
conferrences
conferrer
conferrers
conferring
conferruminate
confers
confertus
conferva
confervaceous
confervae
conferval (current term)
confervas
confervoid algae
confervous
confess
confessable
confessaries
confessary
confesse
confessed
confessedly
confesser
confessers
confesses
confessest

Literary usage of Conferval

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1871)
"... or the " black nebulae," found on slowly decaying conferval spawns, or on floating pine-pollen. Gradually an opalescent cloud or superficial reflection, ..."

2. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1892)
"It consists of various kinds of weeds now agglutinated by the slime, and dried conferval threads, utricularia, horn- wort, etc.,—a streaming, tuft-like wad. ..."

3. The Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural History by William Holl, Neville Wood, Edward Mammatt (1837)
"... and nest in the former, which alone gives its green colour to the conferval production. While under observation, some of them were seen oscillating from ..."

4. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1871)
"conferval spawns, &c.), by bodily enveloping them like a ray-fish (Baya), enfolding the nourishment as if fused around it, and the whole surface exhibiting ..."

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