CHLOROPHYCEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Chlorophyceae mean? 

• CHLOROPHYCEAE (noun)
  The noun CHLOROPHYCEAE has 1 sense:

1. algae distinguished chiefly by having flagella and a clear green color, their chlorophyll being masked little if at all by other pigments

  Familiarity information: CHLOROPHYCEAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHLOROPHYCEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Algae distinguished chiefly by having flagella and a clear green color, their chlorophyll being masked little if at all by other pigments

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Chlorophyceae; class Chlorophyceae

Hypernyms ("Chlorophyceae" is a kind of...):

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

Meronyms (members of "Chlorophyceae"):

order Ulvales; Ulvales (an order of protoctist)

order Volvocales; Volvocales (chiefly freshwater green algae; solitary or colonial)

order Zygnemales; order Zygnematales; Zygnemales; Zygnematales (pond scums; desmids)

Chlorococcales; order Chlorococcales (unicellular green algae that reproduce by spores)

Oedogoniales; order oedogoniales (simple or branched filamentous freshwater green algae)

Holonyms ("Chlorophyceae" is a member of...):

Chlorophyta; division Chlorophyta (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)