PHAEOPHYCEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Phaeophyceae mean? 

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

1. brown algae; mostly marine and littoral eukaryotic algae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHAEOPHYCEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Brown algae; mostly marine and littoral eukaryotic algae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

class Phaeophyceae; Phaeophyceae

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Phaeophyceae"):

brown algae (algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown and yellow pigments)

Laminariales; order Laminariales (in some classifications coextensive with family Laminariaceae: marine brown algae of cold or polar seas)

Fucales; order Fucales (coextensive with the family Fucaceae)

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

division Phaeophyta; Phaeophyta (coextensive with class Phaeophyceae; in some classifications subsumed in the division Heterokontophyta)