noun
large division of chiefly freshwater eukaryotic algae that possess chlorophyll a and b, store food as starch, and cellulose cell walls; classes Chlorophyceae, Ulvophyceae, and Charophyceae; obviously ancestral to land plants
• Syn: ↑division Chlorophyta
• Hypernyms: ↑division
• Member Holonyms: ↑Protoctista, ↑kingdom Protoctista
• Member Meronyms:
Useful english dictionary. 2012.