anabaenoid

English

Adjective

anabaenoid (not comparable)

1. Belonging to or resembling the Anabaena, a genus of filamentous cyanobacteria that exist as plankton.
   • 1972, Water Resources, Environment, and National Development:

     However the 1970 anabaenoid peak did correspond with an unusually high diurnal pH in the region of 8.5 and no doubt determined by photosynthetic activity.

   • 2012, Ian R. Falconer, Algal Toxins in Seafood and Drinking Water, page 159:

     NODULARIA MERTENS / This anabaenoid genus has species with trichomes enveloped by more or less firm sheaths.