laminar i aceæ

pl. [Mod. Latin lam i nari (a); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -aceœ.] Bot.: An order of dark-spored Algals. They are olive-colored, unjointed seaweeds, with superficial spores which form indefinite cloud-like patches, or cover the whole surface of the frond. Many of them are of large size. IMG:content-0341.jpg:[blocks in formation] Zool. Geog .: The second of the great marine zones into which Mollusks are distributed, a zone from low water to fifteen fathoms in depth. The laminaria and other seaweeds form miniature forests in which are the vegetable-feeding mollusks, Lacuna, Ri oa, also bivalves, cephalopods, . In tropical seas there is often coral instead of seaweeds. The oyster beds of the north and the pearl fisheries of the south are in the laminarian zone. lăm-in-ar-Ite, 8. [LAMINA RITES.] Palæobot .: A species of Lamina rites (q. v.).