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BROWN ALGAE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown and yellow pigments

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("brown algae" is a kind of...):

alga; algae (primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "brown algae"):

kelp (large brown seaweeds having fluted leathery fronds)

fucoid; fucoid algae (any of various algae of the family Fucaceae)

rockweed (coarse brown seaweed growing on rocks exposed at low tide)

Fucus serratus; serrated wrack; tang (brown algae seaweed with serrated edges)

gulfweed; sargasso; sargassum; Sargassum bacciferum (brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea)

Holonyms ("brown algae" is a member of...):

class Phaeophyceae; Phaeophyceae (brown algae; mostly marine and littoral eukaryotic algae)

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