genus trichodesmium

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1. a genus of blue-green algae (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	bacteria genus,
definition	:	a genus of bacteria (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	trichodesmium,
definition	:	large colonial bacterium common in tropical open-ocean waters; important in carbon and nitrogen fixation (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	family oscillatoriaceae, oscillatoriaceae,
definition	:	blue green algae (noun.animal)