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Meaning Of Diatom
n.
One of the Diatomaceae, a family of minute unicellular
Algae having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, each individual
multiplying by spontaneous division. By some authors diatoms are called
Bacillariae, but this word is not in general use.
n.
A particle or atom endowed with the vital principle.