order volvocales

English Thesaurus

1. chiefly freshwater green algae; solitary or colonial (noun.animal)

hypernym	:	protoctist order,
definition	:	the order of protoctists (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	family volvocaceae, volvocaceae,
definition	:	unicellular or colonial biflagellate free-swimming flagellates (noun.animal)

member holonym	:	chlamydomonadaceae, family chlamydomonadaceae,
definition	:	green algae some of which are colored red by hematochrome (noun.animal)

member meronym	:	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)