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SEA-LETTUCE FAMILY

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Thin flat or tubular green algae

Synonyms:

family Ulvaceae; sea-lettuce family; Ulvaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("sea-lettuce family" is a kind of...):

protoctist family (any of the families of Protoctista)

Meronyms (members of "sea-lettuce family"):

genus Ulva; Ulva (type genus of the family Ulvaceae; green seaweed having a thallus two cells thick: sea lettuce)

Holonyms ("sea-lettuce family" is a member of...):

order Ulvales; Ulvales (an order of protoctist)

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