Usually means: Microscopic, photosynthetic algae with silica.
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  1. diatoms: Merriam-Webster
  2. diatoms: Collins English Dictionary
  3. diatoms: Vocabulary.com
  4. Diatoms, diatoms: Wordnik
  5. diatoms: Wiktionary
  6. diatoms: Dictionary.com
  7. Diatoms: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. Diatoms: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Diatoms: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. diatoms: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  4. diatoms: Medical dictionary

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  1. diatoms: Canadian Soil Information System
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(Note: See diatom as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (diatom)

noun:  Any of a group of minute unicellular algae having a siliceous covering of great delicacy, now categorized as class Diatomophyceae or division Bacillariophyta.
noun:  (chemistry) A molecule composed of two atoms of the same element; a homonuclear diatomic molecule.
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