phycomater

Phycomater

Phy`co*ma"ter\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? seaweed + L. mater mother.] (Bot.) A gelatin in which the alg[ae] spores have been supposed to vegetate.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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