Meanings
- uncountableA food supplement prepared from blue-green algae of the genus Arthrospira found in soda lakes.
Research by the meat and dairy industries has been slanted. New discoveries show that B12 can be found in numerous non-meat sources, such as olives, mushrooms, bananas, spirulina, bee pollen, concord grapes, […]
1982 February, Paavo Airola, “Plant Sources of Vitamin B12”, in Vegetarian Times, →ISSN, page 881 more example
Another interesting factor in Spirulina is its effect upon appetite. Either it is so concentrated that the body signals a satisfaction feeling from the digestive tract where Spirulina has a remarkable 85% digestibility […]
1980, Christopher B. Hills, The Secrets of Spirulina: Medical Discoveries of Japanese Doctors, Nicholson
Origin
From the genus name Spirulina.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan spirulina
- spirulinafood supplement
French spiruline
- spirulinefood supplement
German Spirulina
- Spirulinafood supplement
Italian spirulina
- spirulinafood supplement
Portuguese espirulina
- espirulinafood supplement
Spanish espirulina
- espirulinafood supplement
Turkish spirulina
- spirulinafood supplement
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with spirulina
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Cite this entry
spirulina. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spirulina
“spirulina.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spirulina. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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