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Definition of Heterocysts
1. heterocyst [n] - See also: heterocyst
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heterocysts
Literary usage of Heterocysts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the British Freshwater Algae by George Stephen West (1904)
"heterocysts are developed from ordinary vegetative cells, ... Under natural
conditions heterocysts are almost invariably solitary in all genera except ..."
2. The Microscopy of Drinking Water by George Chandler Whipple, John Wymond Miller Bunker (1914)
"Cells globose or elliptical; heterocysts usually globose and somewhat larger than
the vegetative cells; spores oval and but little larger than the ..."
3. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"57 (58) Branches generally arising in pairs Scytonema Agardh. Filaments consisting
of vegetative cells and heterocysts; borne singly in a sheath; ..."
4. The Micrographic Dictionary: A Guide to the Examination and Investigation of by John William Griffith, Arthur Henfrey (1883)
"Cells of the filaments of three kinds:—1. ordinary cells ; 2. vesicular cells or
heterocysts, usually large and without granular matter, frequently with ..."
5. The Monthly Microscopical Journal: Transactions of the Royal Microscopical (1872)
"The pairs of heterocysts with the intervening spore occurred at just about the
same intervals as in ordinary examples occur the isolated heterocysts ..."
6. British Fresh-water Algae, Exclusive of Desmidieae and Diatomaceae by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1882)
"Portions of trichomes with heterocysts and spores X 400; ... heterocysts elliptical,
spores elliptic or cylindrical, one or two in each series not ..."
7. The Microscopist: A Compendium of Microscopic Science Including the Use of by Joseph Henry Wythe (1883)
"Frond or phi/coma definite, gelatinous, elongated, linear; spirally curled and
convoluted sheath, inclosing a single moniliform filament; heterocysts ..."
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