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CHARACEAE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Green algae superficially resembling horsetail ferns: stoneworts

Synonyms:

Characeae; family Characeae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("Characeae" is a kind of...):

protoctist family (any of the families of Protoctista)

Meronyms (members of "Characeae"):

stonewort (any of various submerged aquatic algae of the genus Chara having nodes with whorled filamentlike branches; usually encrusted with calcium carbonate deposits)

Chara; genus Chara (green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts)

genus Nitella; Nitella (fragile branching stoneworts)

Holonyms ("Characeae" is a member of...):

Charales; order Charales (small order of macroscopic fresh and brackish water algae with a distinct axis: stoneworts)

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