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nostoc
[ nos-tok ]
noun
- any freshwater, blue-green alga of the genus Nostoc, often occurring in jellylike colonies in moist places.
nostoc
/ ˈɒɒ /
noun
- any cyanobacterium of the genus Nostoc, occurring in moist places as rounded colonies consisting of coiled filaments in a gelatinous substance
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of nostoc1
yvlog History and Origins
Origin of nostoc1
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.
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."
Or we've arrived at one of the oldest of the exclusionists' conventions—or nostoc.
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.
In looking up the subject, myself, I have read only of greenish nostoc.
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