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Meaning of "heterocystous" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HETEROCYSTOUS

heterocystous  [ˌhɛtərəʊˈsɪstəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HETEROCYSTOUS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Heterocystous is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES HETEROCYSTOUS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of heterocystous in the English dictionary

The definition of heterocystous in the dictionary is containing or relating to heterocysts.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HETEROCYSTOUS


Adrastus
əˈdræstəs
asbestous
æsˈbestəs
asbestus
æsˈbestəs
Augustus
ɔːˈɡʌstəs
caestus
ˈsestəs
cestus
ˈsɛstəs
cistus
ˈsɪstəs
costus
ˈkɒstəs
Faustus
ˈfaʊstəs
Hephaestus
hɪˈfiːstəs
physoclistous
ˌfaɪsəʊˈklɪstəs
schistous
ˈʃɪstəs
Theophrastus
ˌθɪəˈfræstəs
Trismegistus
ˌtrɪsmɪˈdʒɪstəs
tungstous
ˈtʌŋstəs
xystos
ˈzɪstəs
xystus
ˈzɪstəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HETEROCYSTOUS

heterocercality
heterocercy
heterochlamydeous
heterochromatic
heterochromatin
heterochromatism
heterochromosome
heterochromous
heterochronic
heterochronism
heterochronous
heterochrony
heteroclite
heteroclitic
heteroclitous
heterocont
heterocycle
heterocyclic
heterocyst
heterodactyl

WORDS THAT END LIKE HETEROCYSTOUS

adenomatous
atheromatous
atramentous
calamitous
circuitous
duplicitous
eczematous
edematous
erythematous
filamentous
fortuitous
granulomatous
gratuitous
ligamentous
momentous
precipitous
rhizomatous
riotous
serendipitous
ubiquitous

Synonyms and antonyms of heterocystous in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «heterocystous» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HETEROCYSTOUS

Find out the translation of heterocystous to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of heterocystous from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «heterocystous» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

heterocystous
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

heterocísticas
570 millions of speakers

English

heterocystous
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

heterocystous
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

heterocystous
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

heterocystous
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

heterocystous
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

heterocystous
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

hétérocystées
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Heterosistem
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

heterocystous
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

異質
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

heterocystous
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Heterocystous
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

heterocystous
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

heterocystous
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हीटरोसिसस्टस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

heterocystous
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

eterocistici
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

heterocystous
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

heterocystous
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

heterocystous
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

heterocystous
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

heterocystous
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

heterocystous
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

heterocystous
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of heterocystous

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HETEROCYSTOUS»

The term «heterocystous» is used very little and occupies the 174.711 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HETEROCYSTOUS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «heterocystous» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «heterocystous» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about heterocystous

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HETEROCYSTOUS»

Discover the use of heterocystous in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to heterocystous and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Characterization of a Non-heterocystous Subtropical Marine ...
Molecular phylogenetic analyses together with morphological observations suggested that this organism should be assigned a new specific epithet. It was designated as Leptolyngbya nodulosa Li et Brand.
Zhongkui Li, 2007
2
Genetics and Regulation of Nitrogen Fixation in Free-Living ...
Heterocystous and Non-heterocystous Cyanobacteria N2-fixing cyanobacteria may be conveniently divided into heterocystous and nonheterocystous types. All heterocystous cyanobacteria can fix N2 aerobically. In such aerobically grown ...
Werner Klipp, Bernd Masepohl, John R. Gallon, 2006
3
Recent Advances in Phototrophic Prokaryotes
Although heterocystous cyanobacteria seem to be best adapted for diazotrophic oxygenic photosynthetic growth, they are absent from full salinity seawater, at least as free-living planktonic organisms. For the tropical waters this can be ...
Patrick C. Hallenbeck, 2010
4
Recent Advances in Environmental Science
heterocystous forms. Among the heterocystous forms, species of Anabaena were more along with a few species of Nostoc, Hapalosiphon welwetzschii and Calothrix, while the non-heterocystous forms were represented by Oscillatoria ...
‎2003
5
Marine Pelagic Cyanobacteria: Trichodesmium and other ...
3.4 WHAT ARE THE POSSIBLE ECOLOGICAL ADVANTAGES FOR NON- HETEROCYSTOUS CYANOBACTERIA OVER HETEROCYSTOUS SPECIES? There is probably no answer to this intriguing question, but a consideration of this  ...
E.J. Carpenter, D.G. Capone, John G. Rueter, 1992
6
Ecology of Cyanobacteria II: Their Diversity in Space and Time
activity considerably. Notwithstanding these facts, the vast majority of marine microbial mats are composed of nonheterocystous cyanobacteria. Thus the question is raised as to why heterocystous cyanobacteria are not more common in these ...
Brian A. Whitton, 2012
7
Fossil and Recent Biofilms: A Natural History of Life on Earth
Mats of the non-heterocystous cyanobacterium Lyngbya sp. or the heterocystous Calothrix sp. show much higher nitrogen-fixing capacities that are clearly attributed to the cyanobacteria. These mats show completely different diurnal patterns ...
W.E. Krumbein, D.M. Paterson, G.A. Zavarzin, 2003
8
The Cyanobacteria: Molecular Biology, Genomics, and Evolution
Although the majority of such mats seem to be composed of non-heterocystous cyanobacteria, there are also ample examples of heterocystous species (Stal, 1995). Why is the global distribution of benthic species so different from that of ...
Antonia Herrero, 2008
9
Biological Fixation of Nitrogen for Ecology and Sustainable ...
In any case, the situation in Trichodesmium, a distinctly non-heterocystous cyanobacterium, in certain functional respects starts to resemble heterocystous cyanobacteria, well known to practice a spatial separation to protect nitrogenase from ...
Andrzej B. Legocki, Hermann Bothe, A. Pühler, 1997
10
Phylogenetics of heterocystous cyanobacteria and the ...
Nostoc is among the most ecologically versatile microorganisms known.
Heath Erle Duhamel O'Brien, Duke University, 2006

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HETEROCYSTOUS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term heterocystous is used in the context of the following news items.
1
A Case For BioHydrogen
The overall physiology of heterocystous cyanobacteria is highly complex. Advances in genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and ... «Science 2.0, Aug 11»

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