Word.ws English Dictionary

nostocaceous

nostocaceous adjective: belonging to the family Nostocaceae of cyanobacteria.

Adjective

nostocaceous (not comparable)

  1. Belonging to the family Nostocaceae of cyanobacteria.

Origin of nostocaceous

Nostocaceae + -ous

Questions about nostocaceous

What does nostocaceous mean?
Nostocaceous means belonging to the family Nostocaceae of cyanobacteria.
What part of speech is nostocaceous?
Nostocaceous is an adjective.

Words near nostocaceous in the dictionary

  1. nostepinde
  2. nostepindes
  3. nostepinne
  4. nostepinnes
  5. nostoc
  6. nostocaceous
  7. nostocalean
  8. nostocaleans
  9. nostoceratid
  10. nostoceratids
  11. nostochaceous

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: nostocaceous (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “nostocaceous.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/nostocaceous. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.