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PHAEOPHYTA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coextensive with class Phaeophyceae; in some classifications subsumed in the division Heterokontophyta
Synonyms:
division Phaeophyta; Phaeophyta
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Phaeophyta" is a kind of...):
division ((biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category)
Meronyms (members of "Phaeophyta"):
class Phaeophyceae; Phaeophyceae (brown algae; mostly marine and littoral eukaryotic algae)
class Cyclosporeae; Cyclosporeae (in more recent classifications superseded by the order Fucales)
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