dictyotas

Noun

dictyota (countable and uncountable, plural dictyotas)

1. Any brown alga of the genus Dictyota.
   • Dictyota liturata J. Ag. and Dictyota Pappeana Kütz., as figured in Kutzing, Tab. Phyc., Vol. IX, Pl. 38, resemble in habit two extreme forms of this species, but both of them, as well as Dictyota Binghamiana, appear to be true Dictyotas, the internal layer never haying more than one series of...1906 June, F. S. Collins, “New Species, Etc., Issued in the Phytotheca Boreali-Americana”, in Rhodora, volume 8, number 90, page 109