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FAMILY LAMINARIACEAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large family of marine brown algae including many economically important large kelps chiefly of northern waters
Synonyms:
family Laminariaceae; Laminariaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Laminariaceae" is a kind of...):
protoctist family (any of the families of Protoctista)
Meronyms (members of "family Laminariaceae"):
genus Laminaria; Laminaria (type genus of the family Laminariaceae: perennial brown kelps)
Holonyms ("family Laminariaceae" is a member of...):
Laminariales; order Laminariales (in some classifications coextensive with family Laminariaceae: marine brown algae of cold or polar seas)