GENUS TRICHODESMIUM

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Meaning:

A genus of blue-green algae

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Trichodesmium" is a kind of...):

bacteria genus (a genus of bacteria)

Meronyms (members of "genus Trichodesmium"):

trichodesmium (large colonial bacterium common in tropical open-ocean waters; important in carbon and nitrogen fixation)

Holonyms ("genus Trichodesmium" is a member of...):

family Oscillatoriaceae; Oscillatoriaceae (blue green algae)

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