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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

MACROCYSTIS

Mac `ro *cys "tis, n. Etym: [NL. See Macro-, and Cyst. ] (Bot. )

 

Defn: An immensely long blackish seaweed of the Pacific (Macrocystis pyrifera ), having numerous almond-shaped air vessels.