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PERIDINIIDAE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Marine and freshwater dinoflagellates
Synonyms:
family Peridiniidae; Peridiniidae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Peridiniidae" is a kind of...):
protoctist family (any of the families of Protoctista)
Meronyms (members of "Peridiniidae"):
genus Peridinium; Peridinium (type genus of the family Peridiniidae)
peridinian (flagellate with a thick test composed of plates)
Holonyms ("Peridiniidae" is a member of...):
Cilioflagellata; Dinoflagellata; order Cilioflagellata; order Dinoflagellata (in some classifications considered a phylum of the kingdom Protista; in others included in the plant phylum Pyrrophyta)
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