Etymology

conferva

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Today it means: Any of a number of unbranched slender green freshwater algae, formerly in the genus Conferva, now mostly in genera Cladophora or Tribonema Full definition →

Latin cōnferva
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  1. Latin · borrowed fromcōnferva
  2. English todayconferva

Borrowed from Latin cōnferva. See comfrey.

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