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CLASS CHLOROPHYCEAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Algae distinguished chiefly by having flagella and a clear green color, their chlorophyll being masked little if at all by other pigments
Synonyms:
Chlorophyceae; class Chlorophyceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("class Chlorophyceae" is a kind of...):
class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)
Meronyms (members of "class Chlorophyceae"):
order Ulvales; Ulvales (an order of protoctist)
order Volvocales; Volvocales (chiefly freshwater green algae; solitary or colonial)
order Zygnemales; order Zygnematales; Zygnemales; Zygnematales (pond scums; desmids)
Chlorococcales; order Chlorococcales (unicellular green algae that reproduce by spores)
Oedogoniales; order oedogoniales (simple or branched filamentous freshwater green algae)
Holonyms ("class Chlorophyceae" is a member of...):
Chlorophyta; division Chlorophyta (large division of chiefly freshwater eukaryotic algae that possess chlorophyll a and b, store food as starch, and cellulose cell walls; classes Chlorophyceae, Ulvophyceae, and Charophyceae; obviously ancestral to land plants)
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