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

That the paper-like substance of Memel may have had such an experience may be indicated in that Ehrenberg found in it gelatinous matter, which he called "nostoc."

From The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort

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

From The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort

To give completeness to "the proper explanation," it is said that Mr. Brandeis had identified the substance as "flesh-colored" nostoc.

From The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort

Upon my replying that this phlegm is a vegetable called nostoc, I was, like St Paul, judged to be mad, and that too much learning had turned my brain.

From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray

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 Charles Fort