Conferva is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.
You can make 306 anagrams from letters in Conferva (acefnorv).
1630-40; Latin: a certain water plant supposed to heal wounds, akin to confervēre to grow together, heal (see con-, fervent)
In the hottest water of the hot springs I collected three species of conferva.
Our mass of conferva turns out to contain one of the most elegant species.
The consequence has been an excessive growth of a conferva which is indigenous to these lakes and confined to them.
In the stomach of C. balnaris I found a considerable quantity of a conferva, too much, I think, to have got in accidentally.
Polyps may be obtained at all times of the year by bringing home duckweed, conferva, and other water-plants from the ponds.
But if the conferva or parasitic fungus exceeds its allies in the above respects, it will then be dominant within its own class.
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