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tintenstriche

tintenstriche noun: a biotic community formed by various species of cyanobacteria, lichens, and algae that stains rock faces with a black or blue color.

Noun

tintenstriche (countable and uncountable, plural tintenstriche)

  1. A biotic community formed by various species of cyanobacteria, lichens, and algae that stains rock faces with a black or blue color.
    • Carl decided to investigate the Tintenstriche or black streaks coursing down the granite walls of the valley.1988, Elizabeth Stone O'Neill, Mountain Sage: The Life Story of Carl Sharsmith, Yosemite Ranger/naturalist
    • On a Scytonemu-dominated xeric tintenstriche in northern England, the heterocyst density in the trichomes was found to be significantly higher than on an adjacent mesic tintenstriche and in nearby streams.2007, B.A. Whitton, editor, The Ecology of Cyanobacteria: Their Diversity in Time and Space

Forms of tintenstriche

pluraltintenstriche

Questions about tintenstriche

What does tintenstriche mean?
Tintenstriche means a biotic community formed by various species of cyanobacteria, lichens, and algae that stains rock faces with a black or blue color.
What part of speech is tintenstriche?
Tintenstriche is a noun.
What is the plural of tintenstriche?
The plural of tintenstriche is tintenstriche.

Words near tintenstriche in the dictionary

  1. tintamarres
  2. tintamars
  3. tintas
  4. tinted
  5. Tintenbar
  6. tintenstriche
  7. tinter
  8. Tintern
  9. tinternell
  10. tinters
  11. tinticite

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