FAMILY CHARACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Characeae mean? 

• FAMILY CHARACEAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY CHARACEAE has 1 sense:

1. green algae superficially resembling horsetail ferns: stoneworts

  Familiarity information: FAMILY CHARACEAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY CHARACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Green algae superficially resembling horsetail ferns: stoneworts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Characeae; family Characeae

Hypernyms ("family Characeae" is a kind of...):

protoctist family (any of the families of Protoctista)

Meronyms (members of "family Characeae"):

stonewort (any of various submerged aquatic algae of the genus Chara having nodes with whorled filamentlike branches; usually encrusted with calcium carbonate deposits)

Chara; genus Chara (green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts)

genus Nitella; Nitella (fragile branching stoneworts)

Holonyms ("family Characeae" is a member of...):

Charales; order Charales (small order of macroscopic fresh and brackish water algae with a distinct axis: stoneworts)