| NOUN | animal | brown algae | algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown and yellow pigments |
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| Meaning | algae having the chlorophyll masked by brown and yellow pigments. | |
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| Member of | Phaeophyceae, class Phaeophyceae | brown algae |
| Narrower | fucoid, fucoid algae | Any of various algae of the family Fucaceae |
| gulfweed, sargassum, sargasso, Sargassum bacciferum | brown algae with rounded bladders forming dense floating masses in tropical Atlantic waters as in the Sargasso Sea | |
| kelp | large brown seaweeds having fluted leathery fronds | |
| rockweed | coarse brown seaweed growing on rocks exposed at low tide | |
| serrated wrack, Fucus serratus, tang | brown algae seaweed with serrated edges | |
| Broader | alga, algae | Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves |
| Spanish | algas pardas, feófitas | |
| Catalan | alga bruna, feòfit | |
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