nostocoid
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Resembling a member of the genus Nostoc of cyanobacterium
Example Sentences
- "The Nostocoid type consists of small rounded blue-green cells not over 5p. in diameter and arranged in chains which are often much broken up in the cephalodium, so that the concatenate arrangement is hardly apparent."
- "The filaments are typically somewhat twisted or nostocoid and the trichomes are very narrow, barely three micra in diameter."