Definition of Nostocaceae

1. Noun. Blue-green algae.

Exact synonyms: Family Nostocaceae
Generic synonyms: Bacteria Family
Group relationships: Class Cyanobacteria, Class Cyanophyceae, Cyanophyceae
Member holonyms: Genus Nostoc

Lexicographical Neighbors of Nostocaceae

Norwegian monetary unit
Norwegian rat
Norwegian rats
Norwegian scabies
Norwegianness
Norwegians
Norweyan
Norwich
Norwich terrier
Norwood's operation
Norwood procedure
Nosematidae
Nosferatu
Nosler
Nosopsyllus
Nostocaceae (current term)
Nostradamus
Nostratic
Nostraticist
Notch
Notechis
Notechis scutatus
Notemigonus
Notemigonus crysoleucas
Nothofagus
Nothofagus cuninghamii
Nothofagus dombeyi
Nothofagus menziesii
Nothofagus obliqua
Nothofagus procera

Literary usage of Nostocaceae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lectures on Bacteria by Anton Bary, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1887)
"To this may be added, that most of the Nostocaceae attain to considerably larger dimensions than the Bacteria in their cells and in the aggregations of ..."

2. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physiological by Julius Sachs (1882)
"... completely developed fructifying states of plants the incompletely developed forms of which have hitherto been placed among Algae, as Nostocaceae and ..."

3. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Francis Wall Oliver, Anton Kerner von Marilaun, Marian (Balfour) Busk (1895)
"The rest are filamentous, and are included under the Nostocaceae, whose filaments can become segmented into small portions which move away by a peculiar ..."

4. Fossil Plants: A Text-book for Students of Botany and Geology by Albert Charles Seward (1898)
"In the former pebbles a species of Schizothrix, one of the Nostocaceae occurs in abundance, in the form of chains of small cells enclosed in the ..."

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