chlorophyte
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1. algae that are clear green in color; often growing on wet ricks or damp wood or the surface of stagnant water (noun.animal)
| hypernym | : | alga, algae, |
| definition | : | primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | laver, sea lettuce, |
| definition | : | seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | pond scum, |
| definition | : | free-floating freshwater green algae (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | spirogyra, |
| definition | : | freshwater algae consisting of minute filaments containing spiral chlorophyll bands (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | stonewort, |
| definition | : | any of various submerged aquatic algae of the genus Chara having nodes with whorled filamentlike branches; usually encrusted with calcium carbonate deposits (noun.animal) |
| hyponym | : | desmid, |
| definition | : | freshwater green algae (noun.animal) |
| member meronym | : | chlorophyta, division chlorophyta, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.animal) |
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