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PROKAYOTAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Prokayotae mean? 

PROKAYOTAE (noun)
  The noun PROKAYOTAE has 1 sense:

1. prokaryotic bacteria and blue-green algae and various primitive pathogens; because of lack of consensus on how to divide the organisms into phyla informal names are used for the major divisionsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


PROKAYOTAE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Prokaryotic bacteria and blue-green algae and various primitive pathogens; because of lack of consensus on how to divide the organisms into phyla informal names are used for the major divisions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

kingdom Monera; kingdom Prokaryotae; Monera; Prokayotae

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

kingdom (the highest taxonomic group into which organisms are grouped; one of five biological categories: Monera or Protoctista or Plantae or Fungi or Animalia)

Meronyms (members of "Prokayotae"):

moneran; moneron (organisms that typically reproduce by asexual budding or fission and whose nutritional mode is absorption or photosynthesis or chemosynthesis)

division Archaebacteria (in some classifications considered a kingdom)

division Eubacteria (one-celled monerans having simple cells with rigid walls and (in motile types) flagella)

family Lactobacillaceae; family Lactobacteriaceae; Lactobacillaceae; Lactobacteriaceae (lactic acid bacteria and important pathogens; bacteria that ferment carbohydrates chiefly into lactic acid)

phylum Pyrrophyta; Pyrrophyta (a division of lower plants comprising unicellular and biflagellate algae that form starchy compounds)


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