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RED ALGAE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Marine algae in which the chlorophyll is masked by a red or purplish pigment; source of agar and carrageenan

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Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("red algae" is a kind of...):

alga; algae (primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves)

Meronyms (parts of "red algae"):

carpospore (a nonmotile spore of red algae)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "red algae"):

sea moss (any of various red algae having graceful rose to purple fronds (e.g. dulse or carrageen))

carageen; carrageen; carragheen; Chondrus crispus; Irish moss (dark purple edible seaweed of the Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America)

dulse; Rhodymenia palmata (coarse edible red seaweed)

laver; red laver (edible red seaweeds)

Holonyms ("red algae" is a member of...):

division Rhodophyta; Rhodophyta (lower plants; mostly marine and littoral eukaryotic algae)

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