FUCACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Fucaceae mean? 

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

1. small family of brown algae: gulfweeds; rockweeds

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FUCACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small family of brown algae: gulfweeds; rockweeds

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Fucaceae; Fucaceae

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

protoctist family (any of the families of Protoctista)

Meronyms (members of "Fucaceae"):

fucoid; fucoid algae (any of various algae of the family Fucaceae)

rockweed (coarse brown seaweed growing on rocks exposed at low tide)

genus Fucus (type genus of the family Fucaceae: cartilaginous brown algae)

Ascophyllum; genus Ascophyllum (brown algae distinguished by compressed or inflated branchlets along the axis)

genus Sargassum (a genus of protoctist)

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

Fucales; order Fucales (coextensive with the family Fucaceae)