Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun trichodesmium

1 sense of trichodesmium

Sense 1
trichodesmium -- (large colonial bacterium common in tropical open-ocean waters; important in carbon and nitrogen fixation)
       => cyanobacteria, blue-green algae -- (predominantly photosynthetic prokaryotic organisms containing a blue pigment in addition to chlorophyll; occur singly or in colonies in diverse habitats; important as phytoplankton)