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    FAMILY PERIDINIIDAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Marine and freshwater dinoflagellatesplay

    Synonyms:

    family Peridiniidae; Peridiniidae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting animals

    Hypernyms ("family Peridiniidae" is a kind of...):

    protoctist family (any of the families of Protoctista)

    Meronyms (members of "family Peridiniidae"):

    genus Peridinium; Peridinium (type genus of the family Peridiniidae)

    peridinian (flagellate with a thick test composed of plates)

    Holonyms ("family Peridiniidae" is a member of...):

    Cilioflagellata; Dinoflagellata; order Cilioflagellata; order Dinoflagellata (in some classifications considered a phylum of the kingdom Protista; in others included in the plant phylum Pyrrophyta)

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