Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A family of fresh-water algæ belonging to the subclass Nostochineæ of the class Cyanophyceæ (Cryptophyceæ), and typified by the genus Nostoc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun A natural family of blue-green algae.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A taxonomic
family within theorder Nostocales — manycyanobacteria .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun blue-green algae
Etymologies
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Nostoc + -aceae
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