CHLOROPHYTA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Chlorophyta mean? 

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

1. 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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHLOROPHYTA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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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Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Chlorophyta; division Chlorophyta

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

division ((biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category)

Meronyms (members of "Chlorophyta"):

Chlorophyceae; class Chlorophyceae (algae distinguished chiefly by having flagella and a clear green color, their chlorophyll being masked little if at all by other pigments)

chlorophyte; green algae (algae that are clear green in color; often growing on wet ricks or damp wood or the surface of stagnant water)

class Ulvophyceae; Ulvophyceae (alternative name for the class Chlorophyceae in some classifications)

Charophyceae; class Charophyceae (in some classifications: contains only the order Charales)

Holonyms ("Chlorophyta" 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)