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Found in moist places as rounded jellylike colonies
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nostoc
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Nostoc is a genus of cyanobacteria found in various environments that forms colonies composed of filaments of moniliform cells in a gelatinous sheath. The name Nostoc was coined by Paracelsus . Nostoc can be found in soil , on moist rocks, at the bottom ...
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Nostoc \Nos"toc\, prop. n. [F.] (Bot.) A genus of alg[ae]. The plants are composed of moniliform cells imbedded in a gelatinous substance. Note: Nostoc commune is found on the ground, and is ordinarily not seen; but after a rain it swells up into a conspicuous ...
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n. found in moist places as rounded jellylike colonies
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n. (context biology English) Any member of the genus ''Nostoc'' of cyanobacteria, found in a variety of environmental niches, that form colonies composed of filaments of moniliform cells in a gelatinous sheath.
Usage examples of nostoc.
This micro-organism is a specially developed strain of the blue-green Nostoc algae.
Venus with large quantities of Nostoc R, the outcome will be a fall in the carbon dioxide ratio, a lessening of the greenhouse effect, and a lowering of the surface temperature.
Those floating anachronisms have a future ahead of them as factories for the production of Nostoc algae.