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DIVISION CHLOROPHYTA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
Chlorophyta; division Chlorophyta
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("division Chlorophyta" is a kind of...):
division ((biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category)
Meronyms (members of "division Chlorophyta"):
Chlorophyceae; class Chlorophyceae (algae distinguished chiefly by having flagella and a clear green color, their chlorophyll being masked little if at all by other pigments)
chlorophyte; green algae (algae that are clear green in color; often growing on wet ricks or damp wood or the surface of stagnant water)
class Ulvophyceae; Ulvophyceae (alternative name for the class Chlorophyceae in some classifications)
Charophyceae; class Charophyceae (in some classifications: contains only the order Charales)
Holonyms ("division Chlorophyta" is a member of...):
kingdom Protoctista; Protoctista (in most modern classifications, replacement for the Protista; includes: Protozoa; Euglenophyta; Chlorophyta; Cryptophyta; Heterokontophyta; Rhodophyta; unicellular protists and their descendant multicellular organisms: regarded as distinct from plants and animals)
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