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nostoc

[ nos-tok ]

noun

  1. any freshwater, blue-green alga of the genus Nostoc, often occurring in jellylike colonies in moist places.


nostoc

/ ˈɒɒ /

noun

  1. any cyanobacterium of the genus Nostoc, occurring in moist places as rounded colonies consisting of coiled filaments in a gelatinous substance
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of nostoc1

From New Latin, dating back to 1640–50, coined by Paracelsus
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of nostoc1

C17: New Latin, coined by Paracelsus
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Example Sentences

Upon my replying that this phlegm is a vegetable called nostoc, I was, like St Paul, judged to be mad, and that too much learning had turned my brain.

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We are not told of nostoc, this time: it is said that the object contained numerous eggs of "some species of Chironomus, from which larvae soon emerged."

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Or we've arrived at one of the oldest of the exclusionists' conventions—or nostoc.

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We shall have many data of gelatinous substance said to have fallen from the sky: almost always the exclusionists argue that it was only nostoc, an Alga, or, in some respects, a fungous growth.

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In looking up the subject, myself, I have read only of greenish nostoc.

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