Nostoc

Word NOSTOC
Character 6
Hyphenation nos toc
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Nostoc"

What do we mean by nostoc?

Any of various freshwater nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria of the genus Nostoc that form spherical colonies of filaments embedded in a gelatinous substance. noun

A plant of the genus Nostoc. noun

A genus of fresh-water algæ belonging to the Cryptophyceæ or Cyanophyceæ, the lowest group of algæ, and typical of the family Nostocaceæ and subclass Nostochineæ. noun

A genus of algæ. The plants are composed of moniliform cells imbedded in a gelatinous substance. proper noun

Found in moist places as rounded jellylike colonies noun

Any member of the genus Nostoc of cyanobacteria, found in a variety of environmental niches, that form colonies composed of filaments of moniliform cells in a gelatinous sheath.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Nostoc

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The word "nostoc" in example sentences

Dr. Edwards writes of the substance that had so completely, or beautifully -- if beauty is completeness -- been identified as nostoc -- "It turned out to be lung-tissue also." ❋ Charles Fort (N/A)

I told him that the phlegm was a vegetable called nostoc, and he thereupon concluded that too much learning had turned my brain, and, fully persuaded of his own complete knowledge of nature, was pleased to be very facetious at my expense. ❋ Various (1909)

Cosmical gelatinous vesicles, similar to the organic 'nostoc' (masses which have been supposed since the Middle Ages to be connected with shooting stars), and those pyrites of Sterlitamak, west of the Uralian Mountains, which are said to have constituted the interior of hailstones, * must both be classed among the mythical fables of meteorology. ❋ Alexander Von Humboldt (1814)

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." ❋ Charles Fort (N/A)

It will mean that something had been in a stationary position for several days over a small part of a small town in England: this is the revolutionary thing that we have alluded to before; whether the substance were nostoc, or spawn, or some kind of a larval nexus, doesn't matter so much. ❋ Charles Fort (N/A)

Or we've arrived at one of the oldest of the exclusionists 'conventions -- or nostoc. ❋ Charles Fort (N/A)

Now, I can't say that nostoc is always greenish, any more than I can say that blackbirds are always black, having seen a white one: we shall quote a scientist who knew of flesh-colored nostoc, when so to know was convenient. ❋ Charles Fort (N/A)

Mr. Brandeis 'communication, his feeling was of conviction that propriety had been re-established, or that the problem had been solved, as he expresses it: knowing Mr. Brandeis well, he had called upon that upholder of respectability, to see the substance that had been identified as nostoc. ❋ Charles Fort (N/A)

Or that, if often reported, grayish or whitish gelatinous substance is not nostoc, and is not spawn if occurring in times unseasonable for spawn. ❋ Charles Fort (N/A)

Memel may have had such an experience may be indicated in that Ehrenberg found in it gelatinous matter, which he called "nostoc." ❋ Charles Fort (N/A)

In instances where testimony was not convincing that gelatinous matter had been seen to fall, it was said that the gelatinous substance was nostoc, and had been upon the ground in the first place: when the testimony was too good that it had fallen, it was said to be spawn that had been carried from one place to another in a whirlwind. ❋ Charles Fort (N/A)

To give completeness to "the proper explanation," it is said that Mr. Brandeis had identified the substance as "flesh-colored" nostoc. ❋ Charles Fort (N/A)

In looking up the subject, myself, I have read only of greenish nostoc. ❋ Charles Fort (N/A)

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. ❋ Charles Fort (N/A)

That we've been damned by giants sound asleep, or by great scientific principles and abstractions that cannot realize themselves: that little harlots have visited their caprices upon us; that clowns, with buckets of water from which they pretend to cast thousands of good-sized fishes have anathematized us for laughing disrespectfully, because, as with all clowns, underlying buffoonery is the desire to be taken seriously; that pale ignorances, presiding over microscopes by which they cannot distinguish flesh from nostoc or fishes 'spawn or frogs' spawn, have visited upon us their wan solemnities. ❋ Charles Fort (N/A)

The Kentucky 'wonder' is no more or less than nostoc. " ❋ Charles Fort (N/A)

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