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Meaning of cyanobacterium | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C2

Definitions

Any of very many photosynthetic prokaryotic microorganisms, of phylum Cyanobacteria.

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Examples

“At some point in the first billion years of life, cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, learned to tap into a freely available resource – the hydrogen that exists in spectacular abundance in water.”
“Photosynthesis was established some billion years ago by ancient bacterial precursors of modern cyanobacteria.”

CEFR level

C2
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This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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