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PERIDINIIDAE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Marine and freshwater dinoflagellates

Synonyms:

family Peridiniidae; Peridiniidae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

protoctist family (any of the families of Protoctista)

Meronyms (members of "Peridiniidae"):

genus Peridinium; Peridinium (type genus of the family Peridiniidae)

peridinian (flagellate with a thick test composed of plates)

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

Cilioflagellata; Dinoflagellata; order Cilioflagellata; order Dinoflagellata (in some classifications considered a phylum of the kingdom Protista; in others included in the plant phylum Pyrrophyta)

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