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    CLASS BACILLARIOPHYCEAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Marine and freshwater eukaryotic algae: diatomsplay

    Synonyms:

    Bacillariophyceae; class Bacillariophyceae; class Diatomophyceae; Diatomophyceae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("class Bacillariophyceae" is a kind of...):

    class ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders)

    Meronyms (members of "class Bacillariophyceae"):

    diatom (microscopic unicellular marine or freshwater colonial alga having cell walls impregnated with silica)

    Holonyms ("class Bacillariophyceae" 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and golden-brown algae and diatoms: Xanthophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Bacillariophyceae; some classification systems superseded or subsumed by Heterokontophyta)

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