BROWN ALGAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brown algae mean? 

• BROWN ALGAE (noun)
  The noun BROWN ALGAE has 1 sense:

1. algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown and yellow pigments

  Familiarity information: BROWN ALGAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BROWN ALGAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown and yellow pigments

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("brown algae" is a kind of...):

alga; algae (primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "brown algae"):

kelp (large brown seaweeds having fluted leathery fronds)

fucoid; fucoid algae (any of various algae of the family Fucaceae)

rockweed (coarse brown seaweed growing on rocks exposed at low tide)

Fucus serratus; serrated wrack; tang (brown algae seaweed with serrated edges)

gulfweed; sargasso; sargassum; Sargassum bacciferum (brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea)

Holonyms ("brown algae" is a member of...):

class Phaeophyceae; Phaeophyceae (brown algae; mostly marine and littoral eukaryotic algae)

 Context examples 

An unprecedented belt of brown algae stretches from West Africa to the Gulf of Mexico—and it’s likely here to stay.

(Satellites Find Biggest Seaweed Bloom in the World, NASA)