blue-green alga

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Noun

blue-green alga

1. Any member of the taxonomic class or phylum Cyanobacteria; a primitive photosynthetic organism similar to bacteria which is thought to have generated the first oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere.

Synonyms

• cyanobacterium, BGA

Translations

• French: algue bleu-vert
• Italian: cianobatterio

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