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nos⋅toc

  [nos-tok]
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–noun
any freshwater, blue-green alga of the genus Nostoc, often occurring in jellylike colonies in moist places.
Origin:
1640–50; < NL, coined by Paracelsus
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nos·toc   (nŏs'tŏk')   
n.  A freshwater blue-green alga of the genus Nostoc, forming spherical colonies of filaments embedded in a gelatinous substance.

[New Latin, coined by Paracelsus.]
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