red tide

red tide

English

A red tide.

Etymology

red +‎ tide

Noun

red tide (plural red tides)

1. An algal bloom of sufficient quantity to cause discoloration (often red) in a body of water; red tides can potentially cause irritation or death to exposed creatures.
   1. specifically, one caused by Karenia brevis.

Synonyms

• crimson tide

Translations

algal bloom

Chinese: Mandarin: 赤潮 (zh) (chìcháo), 紅潮／红潮 (zh) (hóngcháo) Finnish: punainen vuorovesi French: marée rouge (fr) f Galician: marea vermella f German: rote Flut f Greek: κόκκινη παλίρροια f (kókkini palírroia) Hungarian: vörös dagály Japanese: 赤潮 (ja) (あかしお, akashio) Portuguese: maré vermelha f Russian: кра́сный прили́в (ru) m (krásnyj prilív) Spanish: marea roja f Thai: ช่วงน้ำแดง (chûangnáam daeng)

See also

• Alexandrium fundyense
• Alexandrium monilatum
• Gonyaulax
• Karenia
• Gymnodinium
• Dinophysis
• Noctiluca
• Chattonella
• Ceratium
• Amoebophyre
• Alexandrium
• Cochlodinium

Further reading

• red tide on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• red tide on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons