CHLOROPHYTE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chlorophyte mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHLOROPHYTE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

chlorophyte; green algae

Hypernyms ("chlorophyte" 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 "chlorophyte"):

laver; sea lettuce (seaweed with edible translucent crinkly green fronds)

pond scum (free-floating freshwater green algae)

spirogyra (freshwater algae consisting of minute filaments containing spiral chlorophyll bands)

stonewort (any of various submerged aquatic algae of the genus Chara having nodes with whorled filamentlike branches; usually encrusted with calcium carbonate deposits)

desmid (freshwater green algae)

Holonyms ("chlorophyte" 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)