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CLASS ULVOPHYCEAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Alternative name for the class Chlorophyceae in some classifications
Synonyms:
class Ulvophyceae; Ulvophyceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("class Ulvophyceae" is a kind of...):
class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)
Holonyms ("class Ulvophyceae" 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)