English noun: division Chlorophyta | |||
1. | division Chlorophyta (animal) large division of chiefly freshwater eukaryotic algae that possess chlorophyll a and b, store food as starch, and cellulose cell walls; classes Chlorophyceae, Ulvophyceae, and Charophyceae; obviously ancestral to land plants | ||
Synonyms | Chlorophyta | ||
Broader (hypernym) | division | ||
Member holonym | Charophyceae, Chlorophyceae, chlorophyte, class Charophyceae, class Chlorophyceae, class Ulvophyceae, green algae, Ulvophyceae | ||
Member meronym | kingdom Protoctista, Protoctista | ||