FAMILY LAMINARIACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Laminariaceae mean? 

• FAMILY LAMINARIACEAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY LAMINARIACEAE has 1 sense:

1. large family of marine brown algae including many economically important large kelps chiefly of northern waters

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY LAMINARIACEAE (noun)

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Meaning:

Large family of marine brown algae including many economically important large kelps chiefly of northern waters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

family Laminariaceae; Laminariaceae

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

protoctist family (any of the families of Protoctista)

Meronyms (members of "family Laminariaceae"):

genus Laminaria; Laminaria (type genus of the family Laminariaceae: perennial brown kelps)

Holonyms ("family Laminariaceae" is a member of...):

Laminariales; order Laminariales (in some classifications coextensive with family Laminariaceae: marine brown algae of cold or polar seas)