nostoc

American  

[nos-tok] / ˈnɒs tɒk /

noun

1. any freshwater, blue-green alga of the genus Nostoc, often occurring in jellylike colonies in moist places.

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nostoc British  

/ ˈnɒstɒk /

noun

1. any cyanobacterium of the genus Nostoc, occurring in moist places as rounded colonies consisting of coiled filaments in a gelatinous substance

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Etymology

Origin of nostoc

From New Latin, dating back to 1640–50, coined by Paracelsus

Example Sentences

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nostoc

We are not told of nostoc, this time: it is said that the object contained numerous eggs of "some species of Chironomus, from which larvae soon emerged."

From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles

In looking up the subject, myself, I have read only of greenish nostoc.

From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles

Or we've arrived at one of the oldest of the exclusionists' conventions—or nostoc.

From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles

Or that, if often reported, grayish or whitish gelatinous substance is not nostoc, and is not spawn if occurring in times unseasonable for spawn.

From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles

We shall have many data of gelatinous substance said to have fallen from the sky: almost always the exclusionists argue that it was only nostoc, an Alga, or, in some respects, a fungous growth.

From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles