‖Con‐fer″va (?), n.; pl.Confervæ (#). [L., a kind of water plant. See Comfrey.] (Bot.) Any unbranched, slender, green plant of the fresh-water algae. The word is frequently used in a wider sense.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.