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Definition of Cyanophyceae
1. Noun. Photosynthetic bacteria found in fresh and salt water, having chlorophyll a and phycobilins; once thought to be algae: blue-green algae.
Group relationships: Cyanophyta, Division Cyanophyta
Member holonyms: Blue-green Algae, Cyanobacteria, Family Nostocaceae, Nostocaceae, Family Oscillatoriaceae, Oscillatoriaceae
Generic synonyms: Class
Medical Definition of Cyanophyceae
1. Synonym: Cyanobacteria. Origin: cyano-+ G. Phykos, seaweed (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cyanophyceae
Literary usage of Cyanophyceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1910)
"mass, a characteristic bluish green color, quite distinct from the yellow- green
color of the green algae.1 The cyanophyceae are found everywhere in fresh ..."
2. Fossil Plants: A Text-book for Students of Botany and Geology by Albert Charles Seward (1898)
"... contain chlorophyll, and associated with it a blue-green colouring matter;
such plants are classed together as the Blue-green algae, cyanophyceae, ..."
3. The Microscopy of Drinking Water by George Chandler Whipple, John Wymond Miller Bunker (1914)
"This phenomenon is often observed in ponds where cyanophyceae arc abundant.
Looking directly at the pond the water may have a reddish-brown color, ..."
4. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"CHAPTER V BLUE-GREEN ALGAE (cyanophyceae) BY EDGAR W. OLIVE Curator of Ike Brooklyn
Botanic Garden THE blue-green algae are found principally in fresh ..."
5. Strasburger's Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger, Hans Fitting (1921)
"... Blue green Algae ('• lu) The cyanophyceae are simply organised unicellular or
filamentous ... cyanophyceae."
6. A Text-book of General Bacteriology by William Dodge Frost, Eugene Franklin McCampbell (1910)
"Relationship to cyanophyceae. — The bacteria — taking the whole group into
consideration — are without doubt more closely related to the cyanophyceae, ..."
7. Transactions of the Canadian Institute by Canadian Institute (1849-1914). (1899)
"In the larger species of cyanophyceae the cell substance readily reveals the
existence of two zones, one, peripheral, coloured blue-green, the other, ..."
8. Botany, with Agricultural Applications by John Nathan Martin (1920)
"cyanophyceae The Blue-green Algae are the simplest forms" of Algae and are the
simplest of plants that carry on photosynthesis. They are so named because of ..."
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