conferva noun. [kǝn'fǝ:vǝ] obsolete exc. Hist. Pl. -vae [-vi:]. M18.
[Latin, perh. = comfrey.]
Botany. Any of a large group of filamentous cryptogams, esp. simple freshwater green algae, formerly constituting a heterogeneous and variously-defined genus Conferva.

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