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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a special reproductive body in the nostocs, having the form of a chain of roundish cells, from which new cœnobia are formed. Also hormogone, hormogon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A chain of small cells in certain algæ, by which the plant is propagated.
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- noun A small,
motile filament , formed by somecyanobacteria , that detaches and grows by cell division into a new filament
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Cyanobacteria reproduce asexually, and some methods are exospores, endospores, akinetes, and hormogonium.
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