ORDER HETEROTRICHALES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does order Heterotrichales mean? 

• ORDER HETEROTRICHALES (noun)
  The noun ORDER HETEROTRICHALES has 1 sense:

1. yellow-green algae with simple or branching filaments; comprising the single family Tribonemaceae

  Familiarity information: ORDER HETEROTRICHALES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ORDER HETEROTRICHALES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Yellow-green algae with simple or branching filaments; comprising the single family Tribonemaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

Heterotrichales; order Heterotrichales

Hypernyms ("order Heterotrichales" is a kind of...):

protoctist order (the order of protoctists)

Meronyms (members of "order Heterotrichales"):

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

Holonyms ("order Heterotrichales" is a member of...):

Chrysophyta; division Chrysophyta (mostly freshwater eukaryotic algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown or yellow pigment; yellow-green and golden-brown algae and diatoms: Xanthophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Bacillariophyceae; some classification systems superseded or subsumed by Heterokontophyta)