Cyanobacterium
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria.
"At some point in the first billion years of life, cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, learned to tap into a freely available resource – the hydrogen that exists in spectacular abundance in water."
Synonyms
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More examples"At some point in the first billion years of life, cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, learned to tap into a freely available resource – the hydrogen that exists in spectacular abundance in water."
Etymology
From cyano- + bacterium.