nostocoid
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]nostocoid (not comparable)
- (botany) Resembling a member of the genus Nostoc of cyanobacterium
- 1947, Ivan Mackenzie Lamb, A monograph of the lichen genus Placopsis Nyl, page 166:
- The Nostocoid type consists of small rounded blue-green cells not over 5p. in diameter and arranged in chains which are often much broken up in the cephalodium, so that the concatenate arrangement is hardly apparent.
- 1953, Natural and Applied Science Bulletin:
- The filaments are typically somewhat twisted or nostocoid and the trichomes are very narrow, barely three micra in diameter.