PROTOCTIST ORDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does protoctist order mean? 

• PROTOCTIST ORDER (noun)
  The noun PROTOCTIST ORDER has 1 sense:

1. the order of protoctists

  Familiarity information: PROTOCTIST ORDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROTOCTIST ORDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The order of protoctists

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("protoctist order" is a kind of...):

order ((biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "protoctist order"):

Heterotrichales; order Heterotrichales (yellow-green algae with simple or branching filaments; comprising the single family Tribonemaceae)

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

order Ulvales; Ulvales (an order of protoctist)

order Volvocales; Volvocales (chiefly freshwater green algae; solitary or colonial)

Chlorococcales; order Chlorococcales (unicellular green algae that reproduce by spores)

Oedogoniales; order oedogoniales (simple or branched filamentous freshwater green algae)

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

Holonyms ("protoctist order" is a member of...):

kingdom Protoctista; Protoctista (in most modern classifications, replacement for the Protista; includes: Protozoa; Euglenophyta; Chlorophyta; Cryptophyta; Heterokontophyta; Rhodophyta; unicellular protists and their descendant multicellular organisms: regarded as distinct from plants and animals)