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CLASS PHAEOPHYCEAE
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Brown algae; mostly marine and littoral eukaryotic algae
Synonyms:
class Phaeophyceae; Phaeophyceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("class Phaeophyceae" is a kind of...):
class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)
Meronyms (members of "class 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 ("class Phaeophyceae" is a member of...):
division Phaeophyta; Phaeophyta (coextensive with class Phaeophyceae; in some classifications subsumed in the division Heterokontophyta)