BACILLARIOPHYCEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bacillariophyceae mean? 

• BACILLARIOPHYCEAE (noun)
  The noun BACILLARIOPHYCEAE has 1 sense:

1. marine and freshwater eukaryotic algae: diatoms

  Familiarity information: BACILLARIOPHYCEAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BACILLARIOPHYCEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Marine and freshwater eukaryotic algae: diatoms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Bacillariophyceae; class Bacillariophyceae; class Diatomophyceae; Diatomophyceae

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Bacillariophyceae"):

diatom (microscopic unicellular marine or freshwater colonial alga having cell walls impregnated with silica)

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

Chrysophyta; division Chrysophyta (mostly freshwater eukaryotic algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown or yellow pigment; yellow-green and golden-brown algae and diatoms: Xanthophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Bacillariophyceae; some classification systems superseded or subsumed by Heterokontophyta)