ULVOPHYCEAE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Alternative name for the class Chlorophyceae in some classifications

Synonyms:

class Ulvophyceae; Ulvophyceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

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

Chlorophyta; division Chlorophyta (large division of chiefly freshwater eukaryotic algae that possess chlorophyll a and b, store food as starch, and cellulose cell walls; classes Chlorophyceae, Ulvophyceae, and Charophyceae; obviously ancestral to land plants)

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