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LAMINARIACEAE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Large family of marine brown algae including many economically important large kelps chiefly of northern waters

Synonyms:

family Laminariaceae; Laminariaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

protoctist family (any of the families of Protoctista)

Meronyms (members of "Laminariaceae"):

genus Laminaria; Laminaria (type genus of the family Laminariaceae: perennial brown kelps)

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

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

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