GREEN ALGAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does green algae mean? 

• GREEN ALGAE (noun)
  The noun GREEN ALGAE has 1 sense:

1. algae that are clear green in color; often growing on wet ricks or damp wood or the surface of stagnant water

  Familiarity information: GREEN ALGAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREEN ALGAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Algae that are clear green in color; often growing on wet ricks or damp wood or the surface of stagnant water

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

chlorophyte; green algae

Hypernyms ("green algae" is a kind of...):

alga; algae (primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "green algae"):

laver; sea lettuce (seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds)

pond scum (free-floating freshwater green algae)

spirogyra (freshwater algae consisting of minute filaments containing spiral chlorophyll bands)

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

desmid (freshwater green algae)

Holonyms ("green algae" 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)

 Context examples 

Green algae also absorb carbon dioxide and produce oxygen.

(Scientists report skyrocketing phyotplankton population in aftermath of Kīlauea eruption, Wikinews)

Unexpectedly, the researchers discovered genetic sequences from Acanthocystis turfacea chlorella virus 1 (ATCV-1), a type of Chlorovirus, which infects green algae.

(Algal Virus Infects, Affects Humans, NIH)

CLE peptides are involved in cellular development and response to stress, and they are present throughout the plant kingdom, from green algae to flowering plants.

(Plant gene discovery could help reduce fertilizer pollution in waterways, National Science Foundation)

Unlike red algae, whose blooms can damage the ecosystem, green algae form the basis of the food chain, providing food for crustaceans and larger organisms.

(Scientists report skyrocketing phyotplankton population in aftermath of Kīlauea eruption, Wikinews)

A report by a team from the University of Hawaii at Mānoa (UH Mānoa) and the University of Southern California (USC), say the eruption of the Kīlauea volcano last year has been followed by a dramatic increase in the population of phytoplankton, also called green algae, in the waters surrounding the island.

(Scientists report skyrocketing phyotplankton population in aftermath of Kīlauea eruption, Wikinews)