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HETEROTRICHALES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Yellow-green algae with simple or branching filaments; comprising the single family Tribonemaceae
Synonyms:
Heterotrichales; order Heterotrichales
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Heterotrichales" is a kind of...):
protoctist order (the order of protoctists)
Meronyms (members of "Heterotrichales"):
family Tribonemaceae; Tribonemaceae (simple filamentous freshwater yellow-green algae)
Holonyms ("Heterotrichales" 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and golden-brown algae and diatoms: Xanthophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Bacillariophyceae; some classification systems superseded or subsumed by Heterokontophyta)