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PHAEOPHYTA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Coextensive with class Phaeophyceae; in some classifications subsumed in the division Heterokontophyta

Synonyms:

division Phaeophyta; Phaeophyta

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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

division ((biology) a group of organisms forming a subdivision of a larger category)

Meronyms (members of "Phaeophyta"):

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

class Cyclosporeae; Cyclosporeae (in more recent classifications superseded by the order Fucales)

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