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DIVISION PHAEOPHYTA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does division Phaeophyta mean?
• DIVISION PHAEOPHYTA (noun)
The noun DIVISION PHAEOPHYTA has 1 sense:
1. coextensive with class Phaeophyceae; in some classifications subsumed in the division Heterokontophyta
Familiarity information: DIVISION PHAEOPHYTA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Coextensive with class Phaeophyceae; in some classifications subsumed in the division Heterokontophyta
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
division Phaeophyta; Phaeophyta
Hypernyms ("division Phaeophyta" is a kind of...):
division ((biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category)
Meronyms (members of "division 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class Cyclosporeae; Cyclosporeae (in more recent classifications superseded by the order Fucales)
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