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GENUS SARGASSUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Sargassum mean? 

GENUS SARGASSUM (noun)
  The noun GENUS SARGASSUM has 1 sense:

1. a genus of protoctistplay

  Familiarity information: GENUS SARGASSUM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS SARGASSUM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A genus of protoctist

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("genus Sargassum" is a kind of...):

protoctist genus (any genus of Protoctista)

Meronyms (members of "genus Sargassum"):

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

Holonyms ("genus Sargassum" is a member of...):

family Fucaceae; Fucaceae (small family of brown algae: gulfweeds; rockweeds)


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