nostoc

English Thesaurus

1. found in moist places as rounded jellylike colonies (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	blue-green algae, cyanobacteria,
definition	:	predominantly photosynthetic prokaryotic organisms containing a blue pigment in addition to chlorophyll; occur singly or in colonies in diverse habitats; important as phytoplankton (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	genus nostoc,
definition	:	type genus of the family Nostocaceae: freshwater blue-green algae (noun.animal)