Usage examples (15)

• Dr. Edwards writes of the substance that had so completely, or beautifully -- if beauty is completeness -- been identified as nostoc -- "It turned out to be lung-tissue...
• I told him that the phlegm was a vegetable called nostoc, and he thereupon concluded that too much learning had turned my brain, and, fully persuaded of his own complete...
• In looking up the subject, myself, I have read only of greenish nostoc.
• Or we've arrived at one of the oldest of the exclusionists 'conventions -- or nostoc.