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BACILLARIOPHYCEAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marine and freshwater eukaryotic algae: diatoms
Synonyms:
Bacillariophyceae; class Bacillariophyceae; class Diatomophyceae; Diatomophyceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Bacillariophyceae" is a kind of...):
class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)
Meronyms (members of "Bacillariophyceae"):
diatom (microscopic unicellular marine or freshwater colonial alga having cell walls impregnated with silica)
Holonyms ("Bacillariophyceae" is a member of...):
Chrysophyta; division Chrysophyta (mostly freshwater eukaryotic algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown or yellow pigment; yellow-green and golden-brown algae and diatoms: Xanthophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Bacillariophyceae; some classification systems superseded or subsumed by Heterokontophyta)
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