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oscillatorioid

oscillatorioid adjective: being or relating to any cyanobacterium of the order Oscillatoriales.

Adjective

oscillatorioid (not comparable)

  1. Being or relating to any cyanobacterium of the order Oscillatoriales.
    • These algae may be found in desert, as well as non-desert, soils which contain moisture that is available for an extended time period. The filamentous blue-green algae include nostocoid, scytonematoid, rivularioid, and oscillatorioid species.1966, Roy E. Cameron, Gerald B. Blank, United States. National Aeronautics, Space Administration, Desert algae: soil crusts and diaphanous substrata as algal habitats, page 26
    • Also, all of these algae appear to be typical of similar forms found in arid soils of temperate zones (Llano, 1962). The oscillatorioid forms are the most common (Drouet, 1962), […]1971, Louis O. Quam, Horace D. Porter, Research in the Antarctic, page 178

Questions about oscillatorioid

What does oscillatorioid mean?
Oscillatorioid means being or relating to any cyanobacterium of the order Oscillatoriales.
What part of speech is oscillatorioid?
Oscillatorioid is an adjective.

Words near oscillatorioid in the dictionary

  1. oscillatoriaceous
  2. oscillatorian
  3. oscillatorians
  4. oscillatorical
  5. oscillatorily
  6. oscillatorioid
  7. oscillatority
  8. oscillators
  9. oscillatory
  10. oscillatory reaction
  11. oscillatory reactions

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