Usually means: Fragmented, motile filaments in cyanobacteria.
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  2. hormogonium: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  6. Hormogonium, hormogonium: Dictionary.com
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  9. hormogonium: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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▸ noun:  (biology) A small, motile filament, formed by some cyanobacteria, that detaches and grows by cell division into a new filament

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gonimoblast, proheterocyst, filamentation, heterocyte, protonema, heterocyst, gubernaculum, archegonium, endoflagellum, microgonidium, more...

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gonimoblast, proheterocyst, filamentation, heterocyte, protonema, heterocyst, gubernaculum, archegonium, endoflagellum, microgonidium, more...



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