HETEROTRICHALES
Dictionary entry overview: What does Heterotrichales mean?
• HETEROTRICHALES (noun)
The noun HETEROTRICHALES has 1 sense:
1. yellow-green algae with simple or branching filaments; comprising the single family Tribonemaceae
Familiarity information: HETEROTRICHALES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• HETEROTRICHALES (noun)
Meaning:
Yellow-green algae with simple or branching filaments; comprising the single family Tribonemaceae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
Heterotrichales; order Heterotrichales
Hypernyms ("Heterotrichales" is a kind of...):
protoctist order (the order of protoctists)
Meronyms (members of "Heterotrichales"):
family Tribonemaceae; Tribonemaceae (simple filamentous freshwater yellow-green algae)
Holonyms ("Heterotrichales" is a member of...):
Chrysophyta; division Chrysophyta (mostly freshwater eukaryotic algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown or yellow pigment; yellow-green and golden-brown algae and diatoms: Xanthophyceae, Chrysophyceae, Bacillariophyceae; some classification systems superseded or subsumed by Heterokontophyta)
