Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

blue-green alga

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.33 in modern English

Syllables: blue--green al-ga
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any member of the taxonomic class or phylum Cyanobacteria; a primitive photosynthetic organism similar to bacteria which is thought to have generated the first oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere.

Example Sentences

"Blue-green algae cells lack nuclei, and pigment is scattered."
"Northern Ireland’s Lough Neagh, the largest lake in the British Isles, has been hit by recorded levels of potentially toxic blue-green algae that regional agencies say have not been seen since the 1970s."

Inflected Forms

blue-green algae (plural)

Synonyms

BGA cyanobacterium

Questions

What does blue-green alga mean?: Any member of the taxonomic class or phylum Cyanobacteria; a primitive photosynthetic organism similar to bacteria which is thought to have generated the first oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere.

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