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PROTOCTIST FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of the families of Protoctista
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("protoctist family" is a kind of...):
family ((biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more genera)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "protoctist family"):
Babesiidae; family Babesiidae (piroplasms and cattle pathogens)
family Haemoproteidae; Haemoproteidae (bird parasites)
family Plasmodiidae; Plasmodiidae (malaria parasites)
Eimeriidae; family Eimeriidae (a family of protoctist in the order Coccidia)
family Peridiniidae; Peridiniidae (marine and freshwater dinoflagellates)
Bangiaceae; family Bangiaceae; family Rhodymeniaceae; Rhodymeniaceae; family Gigartinaceae; Gigartinaceae (a family of protoctist)
Desmidiaceae; family Desmidiaceae (unicellular algae)
Characeae; family Characeae (green algae superficially resembling horsetail ferns: stoneworts)
family Oedogoniaceae; Oedogoniaceae (filamentous green algae)
family Zygnemataceae; Zygnemataceae (pond scums: common freshwater algae forming green slimy masses)
Chlamydomonadaceae; family Chlamydomonadaceae (green algae some of which are colored red by hematochrome)
family Volvocaceae; Volvocaceae (unicellular or colonial biflagellate free-swimming flagellates)
family Ulvaceae; sea-lettuce family; Ulvaceae (thin flat or tubular green algae)
Euglenaceae; family Euglenaceae (considered green algae)
family Fucaceae; Fucaceae (small family of brown algae: gulfweeds; rockweeds)
family Laminariaceae; Laminariaceae (large family of marine brown algae including many economically important large kelps chiefly of northern waters)
family Tribonemaceae; Tribonemaceae (simple filamentous freshwater yellow-green algae)
Arcellidae; family Arcellidae (soil and freshwater protozoa; cosmopolitan in distribution)
family Nummulitidae; Nummulitidae (a family of fossil protoctists)
family Globigerinidae; Globigerinidae (a family of protoctists)
Holonyms ("protoctist family" is a member of...):
kingdom Protoctista; Protoctista (in most modern classifications, replacement for the Protista; includes: Protozoa; Euglenophyta; Chlorophyta; Cryptophyta; Heterokontophyta; Rhodophyta; unicellular protists and their descendant multicellular organisms: regarded as distinct from plants and animals)
