chlorophyta
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1. 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 (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | division, |
| definition | : | (biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category (noun.group) |
| member holonym | : | chlorophyceae, class chlorophyceae, |
| definition | : | algae distinguished chiefly by having flagella and a clear green color, their chlorophyll being masked little if at all by other pigments (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | chlorophyte, green algae, |
| definition | : | algae that are clear green in color; often growing on wet ricks or damp wood or the surface of stagnant water (noun.animal) |
| member holonym | : | class ulvophyceae, ulvophyceae, |
| definition | : | alternative name for the class Chlorophyceae in some classifications (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | kingdom protoctista, protoctista, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.animal) |
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