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PROTOCTIST FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does protoctist family mean? 

PROTOCTIST FAMILY (noun)
  The noun PROTOCTIST FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. any of the families of Protoctistaplay

  Familiarity information: PROTOCTIST FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PROTOCTIST FAMILY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of the families of Protoctista

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("protoctist family" is a kind of...):

family ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "protoctist family"):

family Zygnemataceae; Zygnemataceae (pond scums: common freshwater algae forming green slimy masses)

Babesiidae; family Babesiidae (piroplasms and cattle pathogens)

family Haemoproteidae; Haemoproteidae (bird parasites)

family Plasmodiidae; Plasmodiidae (malaria parasites)

Eimeriidae; family Eimeriidae (a family of protoctist in the order Coccidia)

family Peridiniidae; Peridiniidae (marine and freshwater dinoflagellates)

Bangiaceae; family Bangiaceae; family Rhodymeniaceae; Rhodymeniaceae; family Gigartinaceae; Gigartinaceae (a family of protoctist)

Desmidiaceae; family Desmidiaceae (unicellular algae)

Characeae; family Characeae (green algae superficially resembling horsetail ferns: stoneworts)

family Oedogoniaceae; Oedogoniaceae (filamentous green algae)

Chlamydomonadaceae; family Chlamydomonadaceae (green algae some of which are colored red by hematochrome)

family Volvocaceae; Volvocaceae (unicellular or colonial biflagellate free-swimming flagellates)

family Ulvaceae; sea-lettuce family; Ulvaceae (thin flat or tubular green algae)

Euglenaceae; family Euglenaceae (considered green algae)

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

family Laminariaceae; Laminariaceae (large family of marine brown algae including many economically important large kelps chiefly of northern waters)

family Tribonemaceae; Tribonemaceae (simple filamentous freshwater yellow-green algae)

Arcellidae; family Arcellidae (soil and freshwater protozoa; cosmopolitan in distribution)

family Nummulitidae; Nummulitidae (a family of fossil protoctists)

family Globigerinidae; Globigerinidae (a family of protoctists)

Holonyms ("protoctist family" 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)


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