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Definition of Genus trichodesmium

1. Noun. A genus of blue-green algae.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Trichodesmium

Literary usage of Genus trichodesmium

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Notes by a Naturalist: An Account of Observations Made During the Voyage of by Henry Nottidge Moseley (1892)
"... of the genus Trichodesmium. These algae occur in the water as small brown faggots of minute threads, resembling, as Mr. Berkeley says, minute fragments ..."

2. Notes by a Naturalist on the "Challenger": Being an Account of Various by Henri Nottidge Moseley (1879)
"In tropical seas, other lo\vly organized algae especially abound; mainly Oscillator-ice, of the genus Trichodesmium. These algae occur in the water as small ..."

3. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1857)
"In my first memoir I have advanced the opinion that this colour might be produced by algae of the genus Trichodesmium, founded upon the observation of a ..."

4. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal: : Exhibiting a View of the Progressive (1857)
"In my first memoir I have advanced the opinion that this colour might be produced by algae of the genus Trichodesmium, founded upon the observation of a ..."

5. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1844)
"... perhaps periodical and always very prolific, of some inferior Algae, and in particular of the species of the singular genus Trichodesmium. ..."

6. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.), Wild Flower Preservation Society of America (1905)
"... belonging to the genus Trichodesmium, established by Ehrenberg. Three different species occur floating on the surface of different oceans. ..."

7. The Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London by Microscopical Society of London (1855)
"I found in them directly all the characters assigned to the genus Trichodesmium by MM. Ehrenberg and Montagne. The determination of the species was more ..."

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