oscillatorioid
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]oscillatorioid (not comparable)
- Being or relating to any cyanobacterium of the order Oscillatoriales.
- 1966, Roy E. Cameron, Gerald B. Blank, United States. National Aeronautics, Space Administration, Desert algae: soil crusts and diaphanous substrata as algal habitats, page 26:
- These algae may be found in desert, as well as non-desert, soils which contain moisture that is available for an extended time period. The filamentous blue-green algae include nostocoid, scytonematoid, rivularioid, and oscillatorioid species.
- 1971, Louis O. Quam, Horace D. Porter, Research in the Antarctic, page 178:
- Also, all of these algae appear to be typical of similar forms found in arid soils of temperate zones (Llano, 1962). The oscillatorioid forms are the most common (Drouet, 1962), […]