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I want to know the term in English for the green slippery substance formed on things that are standing in water. I can only think of "algae" or preferably "green algae"; these are in the context of science.
But is there any other general word in English used for this green slippery thing? In Hindi we say, Kaayi, so what is Kaayi in English?
I think perhaps the term cosy is appropriate. A quick Google search reveals a number of items similar to your picture which are being marketed as a "phone cosy"
For example, a red knit Phone Cosy.
Another application of the term cosy is a tea cosy
Seems to me you might be looking at a ball cosy, although it is more of a neologism than a defined word.
Consider guidee, which means
one who is guided.
An example sentence:
"The guidee was suddenly stopped by the guide."
It doesn't fit your desired context, though. For that, you might just want to go with a higher sortal, like "person":
"A person can only receive guidance from 1 ancestor at a time."
In fact, higher sortals work in all your examples, and are, in my opinion, preferable to using a synonym of "the guided" or "follower". Using the latter in your contexts actually creates redundancies since the consequent material of all of the sentences make it plain that the contexts are ones of guidance. There is no use to encode this information twice.
"The tourist was suddenly stopped by the tour guide".
"The blind man was accompanied by his guide animal."
"The executive was on a tour of the building he helped fund."
All of these sentences contain more information than would the corresponding sentence where the italicized sortal is substitued with a redundant synyonym of "follower".
Best Answer
A generic word is slime: Slime algae on backyard ponds. This could occur on the surface or on the side of tanks.