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nostocoid

nostocoid adjective: resembling a member of the genus Nostoc of cyanobacterium.

Adjective

nostocoid (not comparable)

  1. Resembling a member of the genus Nostoc of cyanobacterium
    • The Nostocoid type consists of small rounded blue-green cells not over 5p. in diameter and arranged in chains which are often much broken up in the cephalodium, so that the concatenate arrangement is hardly apparent.1947, Ivan Mackenzie Lamb, A monograph of the lichen genus Placopsis Nyl, page 166
    • The filaments are typically somewhat twisted or nostocoid and the trichomes are very narrow, barely three micra in diameter.1953, Natural and Applied Science Bulletin

Questions about nostocoid

What does nostocoid mean?
Nostocoid means resembling a member of the genus Nostoc of cyanobacterium.
What part of speech is nostocoid?
Nostocoid is an adjective.

Words near nostocoid in the dictionary

  1. nostocalean
  2. nostocaleans
  3. nostoceratid
  4. nostoceratids
  5. nostochaceous
  6. nostocoid
  7. nostocs
  8. nostocyclopeptide
  9. nostocyclopeptides
  10. nostoi
  11. nostolepid

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