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assimilator
assimilator
English
Noun
assimilator (plural assimilators)
- A person or thing which assimilates.
- In algae, a filament of cells involved with photosynthesis, usually full of chloroplasts.
References
- Christiaan van den Hoek, D. G. Mann, Hans Martin Jahns, Algae: An Introduction to Phycology (CUP, 1995, ISBN 0521316871)