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CRYPTOMONAD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cryptomonad mean?
• CRYPTOMONAD (noun)
The noun CRYPTOMONAD has 1 sense:
1. common in fresh and salt water appearing along the shore as algal blooms
Familiarity information: CRYPTOMONAD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Common in fresh and salt water appearing along the shore as algal blooms
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
cryptomonad; cryptophyte
Hypernyms ("cryptomonad" is a kind of...):
alga; algae (primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves)
Holonyms ("cryptomonad" is a member of...):
class Cryptophyceae; Cryptophyceae (motile usually brownish-green protozoa-like algae)
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