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cyanophycean, a. Bot.|saɪənəʊˈfaɪsɪən| Also Cyanophycean. [f. mod.L. Cyanophyceae, f. cyano- + phyco- + -ācea: see -an.] Of or pertaining to the class Cyanophyceae, which comprises the blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) and is coextensive with the division Cyanophyta.
1902Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 409/1 The sheaths of a Cyanophycean Alga. 1922New Phytologist XXI. 87 The minute internal structure of the Cyanophycean cell. 1935J. E. Tilden Algae iii. 27 A long time must have elapsed between the Cyanophycean and Rhodophycean periods, in which the blue-green and the red algae in turn constituted the dominant flora of the sea. 1957G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. xii. 745 The development of cyanophycean water blooms in some lakes in late July and early August. 1980R. E. Lee Phycology ii. 53 The warm conditions demanded by the rice, the availability of nutrients, the reducing conditions in the soil, and the cynaophycean ability to withstand desiccation all favor growth of blue-greens. 1983S. Holmes Outl. Plant Classification (1986) iv. 22 Food reserves include a special starch, cyanophycean or myxophycean starch and a protein, cyanophycin. Also cyanoˈphyceous a.
1898A. C. Seward Fossil Plants I. vii. 125 It is conceivable that in some of the tubular structures referred to Girvanella we have the mineralised sheaths of a fossil Cyanophyceous genus. 1934Q. Rev. Biol. IX. 442/1 Geitler (1925) holds that all cyanophyceous cell walls consist of pectins, but contain neither chitin nor cellulose. |