blue-green algae

[ bloo-green al-jee ]

plural nounMicrobiology.

Origin of blue-green algae

1
First recorded in 1895–1900

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British Dictionary definitions for blue-green algae

blue-green algae

pl n
  1. the former name for cyanobacteria

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