NOUN | animal | family Characeae, Characeae | green algae superficially resembling horsetail ferns |
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Meaning | green algae superficially resembling horsetail ferns: stoneworts. | |
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Synonym | Characeae | |
Member of | Charales, order Charales | small order of macroscopic fresh and brackish water algae with a distinct axis |
Members | Chara, genus Chara | green algae common in freshwater lakes of limestone districts |
Nitella, genus Nitella | Fragile branching stoneworts | |
stonewort | Any of various submerged aquatic algae of the genus Chara having nodes with whorled filamentlike branches | |
Broader | protoctist family | Any of the families of Protoctista |
Spanish | caráceas, Characeae, familia Characeae | |
Catalan | caràcies |
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