red tides
1red tides — occur frequently in coastal areas and often are associated with population blooms of dinoflagellates. Dinoflagellate pigments are responsible for the red color of the water. Under these conditions, the dinoflagellates often produce saxitoxin,… …
2Red tide — is a common name for a phenomenon known as an algal bloom, an event in which estuarine, marine, or fresh water algae accumulate rapidly in the water column, or bloom . These algae, more specifically phytoplankton, are microscopic, single celled… …
3red tide — a brownish red discoloration of marine waters caused by the presence of enormous numbers of certain microscopic flagellates, esp. the dinoflagellates, that often produce a potent neurotoxin that accumulates in the tissues of shellfish, making… …
4Red algae — Taxobox color = #taxobox color|Plantae name = Red algae image width = 240px domain = Eukaryota unranked phylum = Archaeplastida phylum = Rhodophyta phylum authority = Wettstein, 1922 subdivision ranks = Class subdivision = *Rhodophyceae(There… …
5red tide — noun an algal bloom of sufficient quantity to cause discoloration (often red) in a body of water; red tides can potentially cause irritation or death to exposed creatures …
6RED SEA — (Heb. יַם סוּף, yam suf; lit. Sea of Reeds ). The Hebrew term yam suf denotes, in some biblical references and in most later sources, the sea known as the Red Sea (as in Gr. ʾΕρυθρἁ θάλασσα; Lat. Sinus Arabicus, Mare Rubrum; Ar. Baḥr or al Baḥr… …
7Red Legs Greaves — was a Scottish buccaneer active in the Caribbean and the West Indies during the 1670s. His nickname came from the term Redlegs used to refer to the class of poor whites that lived on colonial Barbados. Although considered a successful pirate… …
8Red River Trails — Métis drivers and ox carts at a rest stop The Red River Trails were a network of ox cart routes connecting the Red River Colony (the Selkirk Settlement ) and Fort Garry in British North America with the head of navigation on the Mississippi River …
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