Nostocoid
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Nostocoid is an adjective meaning (botany) Resembling a member of the genus Nostoc of cyanobacterium.
Meaning
(botany) Resembling a member of the genus Nostoc of cyanobacterium.
Example Sentences
The filaments are typically somewhat twisted or nostocoid and the trichomes are very narrow, barely three micra in diameter.
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.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include nostocaceous, naucoroid, staminoid, notothylaceous, nuculoid, mycetoid.
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