Home › Words › C › chlorellachlorellachlorella means any single-celled green alga, of the genus Chlorella, found especially in stagnant water; now produced commercially as a food supplement.EtymologyA use as a common noun of the genus name taxonomic name Chlorella, from New Latin chlorella, from chlōrus + -ella (“diminutive”), from Ancient Greek χλωρός (khlōrós, “pale green”).nounAny single-celled green alga, of the genus Chlorella, found especially in stagnant water; now produced commercially as a food supplement.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.chlorellaceous 65% match — Belonging to the family Chlorellaceae of green algae. vs chlorella →chlamydozoon 64% match — Any green alga of the genus Chlamydomonas. vs chlorella →chlorococcalean 63% match — Any green alga of the order Chlorococcales. vs chlorella →algal 62% match — Pertaining to, or like, algae. vs chlorella →microalga 61% match — Any of many microscopic photosynthetic protists, often living as single cells and floating as plankton. vs chlorella →chlamydomonad 60% match — Any green alga of the order Chlamydomonadales vs chlorella →chlorophycean 60% match — Any green alga of the class Chlorophyceae vs chlorella →zoochlorella 59% match — Any green algae that lives symbiotically within the body of an aquatic invertebrate or a protozoan. vs chlorella →