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Sea trumpet

sea trumpet

1. (Science: botany) A great blackish seaweed of the southern ocean, having a hollow and expanding stem and a pinnate frond, sometimes twenty feet long.

2. (Science: zoology) Any large marine univalve shell of the genus triton. See Triton.


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Microorganisms - please help identify

... could possibly be stylonychia or euplotes, also members of the ciliates. The last one almost sounds like a rotifer (or Stentor coeruleus if was trumpet shaped when extended) by the way you’ve described its action but sometimes it can be difficult to tell just by looking at a still photo.

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by LittleBeaver
Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:25 pm
 
Forum: Microbiology
Topic: Microorganisms - please help identify
Replies: 1
Views: 1075

carnivorous plants

... sp. (Australian Pitcher Plant) - Darlingtonia sp. (Cobra Lilly) - Drosera sp. (Sundews) - Pinguicula sp. (Butterworts) - Sarracenia sp. (Trumpet Pitcher Plants)

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by Dr.Stein
Mon Aug 01, 2005 12:56 am
 
Forum: Botany Discussion
Topic: carnivorous plants
Replies: 6
Views: 2542

incorrect plant ID

... plant that resembles Brugs is Datura Stramonium. (Datura is in the same family as tomotoes and nightshade.) One common name for datura is Angel's Trumpet (Jimson Weed is less poetic) because it contains highly toxic alkaloids. Idiots can kill themselves with any number of common plants - this ...

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by eluned
Wed Jul 13, 2005 9:53 pm
 
Forum: Botany Discussion
Topic: Brugmansia Candida
Replies: 3
Views: 2156

Brugmansia Candida

... very concerned that these abuses may continue? WHo may I report them to? P.S. this is my favorite plant. I love its smell and its name. The angles trumpet. Its verry apropriate.

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by edser
Wed Jul 13, 2005 8:49 pm
 
Forum: Botany Discussion
Topic: Brugmansia Candida
Replies: 3
Views: 2156

I need serious help about dandelion stem

... the outer layer tends to lose water to its surroundings easily? It kind of sounds like you're saying the end of the cut stem expands wider, like a trumpet, or bell bottom pants; in other words, the walls curve outward, but the stem as a whole doesn't curve. If that's the case then the answer is ...

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by RobJim
Sun Feb 13, 2005 2:41 pm
 
Forum: Botany Discussion
Topic: I need serious help about dandelion stem
Replies: 9
Views: 4662


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