Definitions
Etymologies
- blue + green. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“To make his case, he puts on a slide show: First he shows images of a living cyanobacterium a microbe sometimes called blue-green algae and highlights some characteristics—long filaments made up of cells with small indentations where they meet.”
“Based on the appearance of "filaments" and other features that resemble microbes, Hoover argues that the meteorites contain fossilized life in the form of cyanobacteria - single-celled organisms also known as blue-green algae.”
“That's because a dense, rapidly reproducing, foam-like slime known as blue-green algae is spreading like wildfire.”
“That’s because a dense, rapidly reproducing, foam-like slime known as blue-green algae is spreading like wildfire.”
“She stood on a balcony overlooking the sea, with the folds of her blue-green dress rolling like waves, and the white fur on the hem draped at her feet like foam on sand.”
“With my misgivings firmly in place, I decided that it was better to risk going down in lurid blue-green flames than to write the book one knows one is able to write.”
“Quercetin, a potent antioxidant, promotes the action of bone-building cells and is found in green tea, red wine and microalgae such as chlorella, blue-green algae and spirulina.”
The Huffington Post: Dr. Maoshing Ni: Natural Osteoporosis Help
“As one drives, to the left the Caribbean Sea glitters blue-green, and resorts from when Haiti was once a tourist destination - now largely empty save for Haiti's wealthy and the moneyed foreigners in the country - front the ocean.”
The Huffington Post: Michael Deibert: Notes from Haiti's Long Hot Summer
“Two billion years in the past blue-green algae and bacteria had pumped enough oxygen into the atmosphere to make the early ozone layer and shield life-forms from the savage ultraviolet sunlight.”
“There were so many tiles in so many rich colors that I was bewildered until I saw several very large twenty-four-inch-square slate tiles the color of the Atlantic ocean in deep water, a liquid blue-green.”
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