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PROTOCTIST ORDER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The order of protoctists
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("protoctist order" is a kind of...):
order ((biology) taxonomic group containing one or more families)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "protoctist order"):
Heterotrichales; order Heterotrichales (yellow-green algae with simple or branching filaments; comprising the single family Tribonemaceae)
Laminariales; order Laminariales (in some classifications coextensive with family Laminariaceae: marine brown algae of cold or polar seas)
order Ulvales; Ulvales (an order of protoctist)
order Volvocales; Volvocales (chiefly freshwater green algae; solitary or colonial)
Chlorococcales; order Chlorococcales (unicellular green algae that reproduce by spores)
Oedogoniales; order oedogoniales (simple or branched filamentous freshwater green algae)
Charales; order Charales (small order of macroscopic fresh and brackish water algae with a distinct axis: stoneworts)
Holonyms ("protoctist order" is a member of...):
kingdom Protoctista; Protoctista (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)
