blue-green algae

Questions about blue-green algae

What is another word for blue-green algae?

It depends which blue-green algae you mean. In the sense “predominantly photosynthetic prokaryotic organisms containing a blue pigment in addition to chlorophyll; occur singly or in colonies in diverse habitats; important as phytoplankton”, the synonyms are cyanobacteria. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of blue-green algae?

WordNet records no antonym for blue-green algae. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for blue-green algae come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of blue-green algae

• Full entry for blue-green algaeAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for blue-green algaeWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.