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Trichodesmium

noun
1.
Large colonial bacterium common in tropical open-ocean waters; important in carbon and nitrogen fixation.



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... weak lens, seemed as if covered by chopped bits of hay, with their ends jagged. These are minute cylindrical confervae, in bundles or rafts of from twenty to sixty in each. Mr. Berkeley informs me that they are the same species (Trichodesmium erythraeum) with that found over large spaces in the Red Sea, and whence its name of Red Sea is derived. [8] Their numbers must be infinite: the ship passed through several bands of them, one of which was ...
— The Voyage of the Beagle • Charles Darwin


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