English Explanatory Dictionary

blue-green alga

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

blue-green alga blue-green algae

Synonyms

BGA cyanobacterium
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