Definitions for Nostoc

Nostoc nos·toc

Spelling: [nos-tok]
IPA: /ˈnɒs tɒk/

Nostoc is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 85 anagrams from letters in Nostoc (cnoost).

Definitions for Nostoc

noun

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

Origin of Nostoc

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

Examples for Nostoc

They are gelatinous, and have something of the appearance of nostoc, in aspect as well as in minute structure.

A species of nostoc is largely consumed in China as an ingredient in soup.

The alg referred to were according to Euler of the nostoc type.

Colonies of nostoc are constantly found living in some of the mucilage slits which then become enlarged.

Colonies of nostoc are constantly found in the Anthocerotaceae and in Blasia.

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

Modern naturalists place it in the class cryptogamia, and give it the name of Tremella nostoc.

The ventral surface bears flat scales in addition to the concave scales which, as mentioned above, are inhabited by nostoc.

nostoc does not require sugar, since it can produce that compound from the CO2 of the air by the activity of its chlorophyll.

Word Value for Nostoc
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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